M. Tullius Cicero, Divinatio in Q. Caecilium, ed. William Peterson, 53

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[53] sed ceteri Siculi ultorem suarum iniuriarum invenerunt; tu dum tuas iniurias per te, id quod non potes, persequi conaris, id agis ut ceterorum quoque iniuriae sint impunitae atque inultae; et hoc te praeterit, non id solum spectari solere, qui debeat, sed etiam illud, qui possit ulcisci; in quo utrumque sit, eum superiorem esse, in quo alterutrum¹, in eo non quid is velit, sed quid facere possit, quaeri solere.

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.) — 53 focus

[53] But the rest of the Sicilians have found an avenger of their injuries; you, while you are endeavouring to exact vengeance for your injuries by your own means, (which you will not be able to effect,) are acting in a way to leave the injuries of all the rest unpunished and unavenged. And you do not see that it ought not alone to be considered who is a proper person to exact vengeance, but also who is a person capable of doing so,—that if there be a man in whom both these qualifications exist, he is the best man.

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Divinatio in Q. Caecilium

1. alterutrum DLKpq: alterum utrum G2: alterum G1Zbr edd. ( Cl. Rev. xvii. 199)

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