M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, Charles Duke Yonge (Translator), 45

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[45] Now, too, after the disaster which befell us in Pontus , from the result of that battle, of which, sorely against my will, I just now reminded you, when our allies were in a state of alarm, when the power and spirits of our enemies had risen, and the province was in a very insufficient state of defence, you would have entirely lost Asia , O Romans, if the fortune of the Roman people had not, by some divine interposition, brought Cnaeus Pompeius at that particular moment into those regions. His arrival both checked Mithridates, elated with his unusual victory, and delayed Tigranes, who was threatening Asia with a formidable army. And can any one doubt what he will accomplish by his valour, when he did so much by his authority and reputation? or how easily he will preserve our allies and our revenues by his power and his army, when he defended them by the mere, terror of his name?

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.) — 45 focus

[45] iam accepta in Ponto calamitate ex eo proelio de quo vos paulo ante invitus admonui, cum socii pertimuissent, hostium opes¹ animique crevissent, satis firmum praesidium provincia non haberet, amisissetis Asiam, Quirites, nisi ad² ipsum discrimen eius temporis divinitus Cn. Pompeium ad eas regiones Fortuna³ populi Romani attulisset. huius adventus et Mithridatem insolita⁴ inflatum⁵ victoria continuit et Tigranen⁶ magnis copiis minitantem Asiae retardavit. et quisquam dubitabit quid virtute perfecturus⁷ sit qui tantum auctoritate perfecerit⁸, aut quam facile imperio atque exercitu socios et vectigalia conservaturus sit qui ipso nomine ac rumore defenderit?

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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

proelio : the defeat of Triarius (see sect. 25 ).

provincia , i.e. Asia.

ad eas regiones , i.e. only into the neighborhood, for Pompey's authority did not extend to the seat of war; this force is given by the preposition ad: in would mean into.

perfecturus sit : § 575 , a (334, a); cf. B. 269, 3; G. 514, b; H. 649, ii, I (529, ii, 4); 14.-B. 537, d, I.

perfecerit : subj. of characteristic.

M. Tullius Cicero De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 45

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