M. Tullius Cicero, Pro M. Tullio, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 56

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[56] qui occisi sunt, an ei ex quorum numero saucius factus est nemo? qui¹ cur facerent, causa non fuit, an ei qui fecisse² se confitentur? verum ut hoc tibi credam, metuisse te ne oppugnarere, quis hoc statuit umquam³, aut cui concedi sine summo omnium periculo potest, ut eum⁴ iure potuerit occidere a quo metuisse se dicat ne ipse posterius occideretur⁵?

Pro M. Tullio. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1911.

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Pro M. Tullio (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 6. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911.)

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For M. Tullius Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.) — 56 focus

[56] Those who came to the house, or those who remained in the house? Those who were slain, or those, of whose number not one man was wounded? Those who had no imaginable reason for acting so, or those who confess that they did act so? But suppose I were to believe that you were afraid of being attacked, who ever laid down such a principle as this, or who could have this granted him without extreme danger to the whole body of citizens, that he might lawfully kill a man, if he only said that he was afraid of being hereafter killed by him? [The rest of this oration is lost.]

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Pro M. Tullio

1. qui fort. quibus

2. fecissent T

3. statuit umquam Quintil.: statutumquam T

4. ut eum hic desinit T

5. quis hoc ... occideretur hab. Quintil. v. 13. 21

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