M. Tullius Cicero In C. Verrem 2.5.117

ed. William Peterson

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In C. Verrem. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. William Peterson. Oxford. 1917.

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Current edition Perseus

In C. Verrem (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 3. Peterson, William, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1917.)

Notes on the current edition

In C. Verrem

1. sunt haec Vprk δ, Quint. viii. 4. 19: haec sunt RS ψ
2. nauarchus homo nobilissimus nobilissimae civitatis scripsi ( Am. J. Phil. xxvi, p. 431): nav. nobilissimae civitatis Vprk, Quint. l. c.: nav. homo nobilissimae civ. R: nav. homo nobilis summae civ. SD ( cf. iii, §56; v, §§20, 122)
3. est VR: om. δ
4. ne Vp δ: ut RS ψ (ne securi feriretur Quint. l. c.)
5. est Vpk δ, Quint.: om. RS ψ
6. vult Vp δ, Quint. ix. 4. 70: volet RS ψ
7. navarchorum male secl. Memmius, Lamb., edd. recc. ( Zielinski, p. 198)
8. intro ferre Vp δ ( ll. 4-5 infra)

Commentary

Commentary on Impeachment of Verres (Select Orations of Cicero (Allen and Greenough's Edition). Greenough, James Bradstreet; Kittredge, George Lyman, editors. Boston, London: Ginn & Company, 1897.) focus

cum (causal)

sint , when men are ready.—

contionibus et legibus, harangues and bills (proposed laws). The proposition of a law which took the exclusive control of the courts from the Senators was even now pending, and the law ( Lex Aurelia) was passed before the case of Verres was decided.

conentur , purpose clause.

magnitudine , abl. of means.

spe , abl. of specification.

actor , complainant, i.e. agent or attorney for conducting the suit in personal processes ( in personam ).

adduxi enim hominem, etc.: cf. Burke, Impeachment of Warren Hastings: We have brought before your Lordships the first man in property and power; we have brought before you the head, the chief, the captain-general in iniquity,—one in whom all the frauds, all the peculations, all the tyranny in India are embodied, disciplined, and arrayed. Then, if we have brought before you such a person, if you strike at him, you will not have need of a great many more examples,— you strike at the whole corps if you strike at the head:

in quo , in whose case

reconciliare, etc., win back the lost repute.

possetis , purpose.

depeculatorem, etc.: for a more complete statement of these charges, see chs. iv , v .

juris urbani, i.e. as praetor urbanus (see sect. 12 ).