M. Tullius Cicero, In C. Verrem, ed. William Peterson, 2.5.126

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[126] 48 quo confugient socii? quem implorabunt? qua spe denique, ut vivere velint, tenebuntur, si vos eos deseretis? ad senatumne¹ venient²? quid? ut de Verre supplicium sumat³? non est usitatum, non senatorium⁴. ad populum Romanum confugient? facilis est populi causa⁵; legem enim se sociorum causa iussisse et eius legis⁶ custodes ac vindices praeposuisse dicet. hic locus igitur est unus quo perfugiant, hic portus, haec arx⁷, haec ara sociorum; quo quidem nunc non ita confugiunt ut antea in suis repetundis⁸ rebus solebant. non argentum, non aurum⁹, non vestem, non mancipia repetunt, non ornamenta quae ex urbibus fanisque erepta sunt; metuunt homines imperiti ne iam haec populus Romanus concedat et ita velit fieri¹⁰. patimur enim multos iam annos et silemus, cum videamus ad paucos homines omnis¹¹ omnium nationum pecunias pervenisse. quod eo magis ferre animo aequo et concedere videmur, quia nemo istorum dissimulat, nemo laborat¹² ut obscura sua cupiditas esse videatur.

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

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

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In C. Verrem

1. senatumne V: senatum RS ψ

2. venient RS ψ: veniant V: senatum devenient p δ

3. sumant VRSp

4. non senatorum RS: non est senatorium V

5. populi causa RS ψ: causa pop. p δ: causa PRV

6. eius legis (leges p) RSp: eius V: eis legi δ: vos eius leges q: vos ei legi Victorius: ei vos legi Iord. et edd.

7. haec arx om. RS ψ

8. repetundis V: -endis RS

9. Non aurum non arg. Vq

10. velit fieri V, Halm, Zielinski ( p. 198): fieri velit rell. (iii, §168)

11. omnis Vp: om. RS ψ

12. elaborat V (iii, §130; v, §§158, 188)

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 ).

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