M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Fonteio, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 31

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[31] postremo his¹ quicquam² sanctum ac religiosum videri potest qui, etiam si quando aliquo metu adducti deos placandos esse arbitrantur³, humanis hostiis eorum aras ac templa funestant, ut ne religionem quidem colere possint, nisi eam ipsam prius scelere violarint? quis enim ignorat eos usque ad hanc diem retinere illam immanem ac barbaram consuetudinem hominum immolandorum? quam ob rem quali fide, quali pietate existimatis esse eos⁴ qui etiam deos immortalis arbitrentur hominum scelere⁵ et sanguine facillime posse placari? Cum his vos testibus vestram religionem coniungetis, ab his quicquam⁶ sancte aut moderate⁷ dictum putabitis? hoc vestrae mentes tam castae,

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

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

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For M. Fonteius Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.) — 31 focus

[31] Lastly, can anything appear holy or solemn in the eyes of those men, who, if ever they are so much influenced by any fear as to think it necessary to propitiate the immortal gods, defile their altars and temples with human victims? So that they cannot pay proper honour to religion itself without first violating it with wickedness. For who is ignorant that, to this very day, they retain that savage and barbarous custom of sacrificing men? What, therefore, do you suppose is the good faith, what the piety of those men, who think that even the immortal gods can be most easily propitiated by the wickedness and murder of men? Will you connect your own religious ideas with these witnesses? Will you think that anything is said holily or moderately by these men?

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Pro Fonteio

1. his iis kl

2. quicquam χ2kl: quisquam V χ1

3. arbitrantur ς, ed. R: arbitrabantur V

4. eos ς: nos V: hos Klotz

5. scelere caede Pluygers

6. ab his quicquam ed. Hervag.: ab quicquam V: aut his quicquam χ: aut cuiusquam k

7. sancte aut moderate χl, ed. R: sancta faui moderatae V: sancte fieri moderate k

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