M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, Charles Duke Yonge (Translator), 38

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[38] Recollect the marches which, during these latter years, our generals have made in Italy , through the lands and towns of the Roman citizens; then you will more easily imagine what is the course pursued among foreign nations. Do you think that of late years more cities of the enemy have been destroyed by the arms of your soldiers, or more cities of your own allies by their winter campaigns? For that general who does not restrain himself can never restrain his army; nor can he be strict in judging others who is unwilling for others to be strict in judging him.

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.) — 38 focus

[38] itinera quae per hosce¹ annos in Italia per agros atque oppida civium Romanorum nostri imperatores fecerint recordamini; tum facilius statuetis quid apud exteras nationes fieri existimetis. Vtrum pluris arbitramini per hosce annos militum vestrorum armis hostium urbis an hibernis sociorum civitates esse deletas? neque enim potest exercitum is continere imperator qui se ipse² non continet, neque severus esse in iudicando qui alios in se severos esse iudices non volt. hic miramur hunc hominem tantum excellere ceteris,

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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

recordamini : impen as protasis; § 521 , b (310, b); B. 302, 4; G. 593, 4; H. 560, 3 (487, 3); H.-B. 497, 2.

quid . . . existimetis : in the direct question it would be the same form, as deliberative subj.; § 444 (268); B. 277; G. 259; H. 557 (486, ii); H.-B. 503.

hibernis : notice the strong antithesis to

armis .

judicando : a great part of the imperator's business would l)e deciding cases of extortion by the publicani, who were of the same class ( equites) that held the judicial power in Rome. By not being strict ( severus) with them, he might purchase immunity for himself, if brought to trial afterwards on a similar charge.

M. Tullius Cicero De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 38

Charles Duke Yonge (Translator)

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