M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, Charles Duke Yonge (Translator), 39

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[39] Do we wonder now that this man should be so far superior to all others, when his legions arrived in Asia in such order that not only no man's hand in so numerous an army, but not even any man's footstep was said to have done the least injury to any peaceful inhabitant? But now we have daily rumours—yes, and letters too—brought to Rome about the way in which the soldiers are behaving in their winter quarters; not only is no one compelled to spend money on the entertainment of the troops, but he is not permitted to do so, even if he wish. For our ancestors thought fit that the houses of our allies and friends should be a shelter to our soldiers from the winter, not a theatre for the exercise of their avarice.

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.) — 39 focus

[39] cuius legiones sic in Asiam pervenerint ut non modo manus tanti exercitus sed ne vestigium quidem cuiquam pacato nocuisse dicatur? iam vero quem ad modum milites hibernent cotidie sermones ac litterae perferuntur; non modo ut sumptum faciat in militem nemini vis adfertur sed ne cupienti quidem quicquam¹ permittitur. hiemis enim non avaritiae perfugium maiores nostri in sociorum atque amicorum tectis esse voluerunt.

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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

hic , in such a case (properly, at this point in my discourse).

manus , vestigium, i.e. not only was there no intentional injury done, but no unintended evils followed in its train.

jam vero : here simply a particle of transition. Pompey's winter quarters are contrasted with such as are referred to above in hibernis (l.14).

sermones , reports, by way of common talk.

ut . . . faciat , to incur expense in entertaining officers and soldiers.

enim : the connection of thought is, — [and in this he follows old custom] for, etc.

hiemis , from winter (obj. gen.).

avaritiae , for avarice (subj. gen.): cf. § 348 , N., 343, N.1 (217, N.); G. 363, R.2; H. 440, I and 2 (396, ii and iii); H.-B. 344, 354.

M. Tullius Cicero De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 39

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