M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, Charles Duke Yonge (Translator), 18

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[18] In the next place, clever and industrious men, of all the other orders of the state, are some of them actually trading themselves in Asia , and you ought to show a regard for their interests in their absence; and others of them have large sums invested in that province. It will, therefore become your humanity to protect a large number of those citizens from misfortune; it will become your wisdom to perceive that the misfortune of many citizens cannot be separated from the misfortune of the republic. In truth, firstly, it is of but little consequence for you afterwards to recover for the publicans revenues which have been once lost; for the same men have not afterwards the same power of contracting for them, and others have not the inclination, through fear.

De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites. M. Tullius Cicero. Charles Duke Yonge (Translator). London. 1856.

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In Defense of the Proposed Manilian Law (English) (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.)

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De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites Perseus (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 1. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.) — 18 focus

[18] deinde ex ceteris¹ ordinibus homines gnavi² atque industrii partim ipsi in Asia negotiantur, quibus vos absentibus consulere debetis, partim eorum³ in ea provincia pecunias magnas conlocatas habent. est igitur humanitatis vestrae magnum numerum civium⁴ calamitate prohibere, sapientiae videre multorum civium calamitatem a re publica⁵ seiunctam esse non posse. etenim illud primum⁶ parvi⁷ refert, vos⁸ publicanis amissa⁹ vectigalia postea victoria reciperare; neque enim isdem redimendi facultas erit propter calamitatem neque aliis voluntas propter timorem.

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

ex ceteris ordinibus refers to men of humbler rank who were carrying on business in Asia, as well as to Senators who had money invested ( conlocatas) there.

eorum (redundant) limits partim.

humanitatis vestrae : § 343 , c (214, d); B. 198,3; G. 366; H. 439, 3 (401, N.2); H.-B. 340;

sapientiae is in the same construction.

etenim primum introduces the first reason why the losses of private citizens are a matter of public concern; the second reason is introduced by

deinde quod (sect. 19 ).

illud parvi refert , etc., it is of slight consequence that we can afterwards win back in victory: § 417 (252, a); B. 211, 3, a; G. 379, 380; H. 449, 3 (408, iii); H.-B. 427, 2, a.

publica either agrees with vectigalia , or may be taken absolutely, omitting the doubtful word vectigalia.

his , i.e. the publicani.

amissis , lost, i.e. as bidders for the revenues.

redimendi , contracting for the revenues.

M. Tullius Cicero De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 18

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