M. Tullius Cicero, Divinatio in Q. Caecilium, ed. William Peterson, 26

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[26] ego in hoc iudicio mihi Siculorum causam receptam, populi Romani susceptam esse arbitror, ut mihi non unus¹ homo² improbus opprimendus sit, id quod Siculi petiverunt, sed omnino omnis³ improbitas, id quod populus Romanus iam diu flagitat, exstinguenda atque delenda sit: in quo ego⁴ quid eniti aut quid efficere possim, malo in aliorum spe relinquere quam in oratione mea ponere.

Divinatio in Q. Caecilium. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. William Peterson. Oxford. 1917.

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

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Divinatio against Q. Caecilius Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 1. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1903.) — 26 focus

[26] In this trial I think that the cause of the Sicilian nation,—that the cause of the whole Roman people, is undertaken by me; so that I have not to crush one worthless man alone, which is what the Sicilians have requested, but to extinguish and extirpate every sort of iniquity, which is what the Roman people has been long demanding. And how far I labour in this cause, or what I may be able to effect, I would rather leave to the expectations of others, than set forth in my own oration.

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Divinatio in Q. Caecilium

1. non unus prb Asc.: non nisi unus DG1KZ: non tantum unus G2L. Cf. v, §170

2. homo om. Asc. Fort. non unus modo improbus: Cl. Rev. xvii. 198

3. omnino omnis Iannoctianus Garatonii ( Zumpt Praef. p. xxvi), Steph., Lamb.: omnino codd.: omnis Asc.

4. ego πb δ: om. D Υ

M. Tullius Cicero Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 26

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