M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Fonteio, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 42

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[42] 19 qua re si etiam monendi estis a me, iudices¹, quod non estis, videor hoc leviter² pro mea³ auctoritate vobis praecipere posse, ut ex eo genere homines quorum cognita virtus, industria, felicitas in re militari sit diligenter vobis retinendos existimetis. fuit enim⁴ maior talium tum⁵ virorum in hac re publica copia; quae cum esset, tamen eorum non modo saluti sed etiam honori consulebatur. quid nunc vobis faciendum est studiis militaribus apud iuventutem obsoletis, fortissimis⁶ autem⁷ hominibus ac summis ducibus partim aetate, partim civitatis discordiis ac rei publicae calamitate consumptis, cum tot bella aut a nobis necessario suscipiantur aut subito atque improvisa⁸ nascantur? nonne et hominem ipsum ad dubia rei publicae tempora reservandum et ceteros studio laudis ac virtutis inflammandos putatis?

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.) — 42 focus

[42]
Wherefore, if you do require to be reminded at all by me, O judges, (which, in truth, you do not,) it seems to me I may, without presuming too much on my authority, give you this gentle hint,—that you ought to consider that those men are carefully to be preserved by you, whose valour, and energy, and good fortune in military affairs have been tried and ascertained. There has been a greater abundance of such men in the republic than there is now; and when there was, people consulted not only their safety, but their honour also. What, then, ought you to do now, when military studies have become obsolete among our youth, and when our best men and our greatest generals have been taken from us, partly by age, and partly by the dissensions of the state and the ill fortune of the republic? When so many wars are necessarily undertaken by us, when so many arise suddenly and unexpectedly, do you not think that you ought to preserve this man for the critical occasions of the republic, and to excite others by his example to the pursuit of honour and virtue?

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Pro Fonteio

1. estis a me iudices V: estis a me χl: estis iudices k videor] iudices χl, ed. R

2. leniter k, Klotz

3. mea me V

4. enim olim Mommsen

5. tum supplevi

6. fortissimis suppl. hoc loco Müller ( post hominibus Orelli)

7. autem V: aut χl: aut claris k

8. improviso Lambinus

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