M. Tullius Cicero, Divinatio in Q. Caecilium, 50

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[50] And you are to appear in just this state of preparation, that you have to make friends of those men who are utter strangers to you, for the purpose of obtaining their assistance. But I will not do these men so much honour as to answer what they have said in any regular order, or to give a separate answer to each; but since I have come to mention them not intentionally, but by chance, I will briefly, as I pass, satisfy them all in a few words. 16 Do I seem to you to be in such exceeding want of friends that I must have an assistant given me, chosen not out of the men whom I have brought down to court with me, but out of the people at large? And are you suffering under such a dearth of defendants, that you endeavour to filch this cause from me rather than look for some defendants of your own class at the pillar of Maenius? ¹

Divinatio in Q. Caecilium. M. Tullius Cicero. London. 1903.

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Divinatio against Q. Caecilius (English) (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 1. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1903.)

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Divinatio in Q. Caecilium Perseus (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 3. Peterson, William, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917.) — 50 focus

[50] ex quibus alienissimis hominibus ita paratus venis ut tibi hospes aliquis sit recipiendus. quibus ego non sum tantum honorem habiturus ut ad ea quae dixerint certo loco aut singillatim uni cuique respondeam: sic breviter, quoniam non consulto sed casu in eorum mentionem incidi, quasi praeteriens satis faciam universis. 16 tantane vobis inopia videor esse amicorum ut mihi non ex his quos mecum adduxerim, sed de populo subscriptor addatur? vobis autem tanta inopia reorum est ut mihi causam praeripere conemini potius quam aliquos ad columnam Maeniam¹ vestri ordinis reos reperiatis? custodem, inquit, Tullio me adponite.

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Against Quintus Caecilius

1. Maenius had sold his house to Cato and Valerius Flaccus when they were censors, and they had built the Porcian Piazza on the spot, but he had reserved for himself one pillar for him and his heirs to have a view of the gladiatorial contests from it; and near this column the triumviricapitates held their court, before whose tribunal it was chiefly the lower sort of criminals who were brought, and as a general rule the advocates who practised in these courts were of a lower class than those who confined themselves to more respectable clients, and to civil actions.

M. Tullius Cicero Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 50

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