O tempora, o mores!
Exclamation by Cicero, most famously in first Catilinarian oration
O tempora, o mores!
O tempora o mores is a Latin phrase meaning 'Oh the times, oh the customs', spoken by Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero as a lament of the modern world. It is frequently quoted to cry out against political corruption and moral decline. The phrase 'o tempora o mores' appears in four of Cicero's extant speeches, and most famously in the opening of his First Oration against Catiline. In this speech, delivered in 63 BCE during Cicero's consulship (i.e. his twelve-month term as head of state of the Roman Republic), Cicero denounces his fellow senator and political opponent Lucius Sergius Catilina (Catiline), accuses Catiline of high treason and exposes the Catilinarian Conspiracy to assassinate the consuls, overthrow the government, and burn the city of Rome. o tempora o mores! senatus hæc intellegit, consul videt; hic tamen vivit. vivit? immo vero etiam in senatum venit, fit publici consili particeps, notat et designat oculis ad cædem unum quemque nostrum. nos autem fortes viri satis...
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