M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, Charles Duke Yonge (Translator), 71

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[71] Wherefore, whatever I have undertaken in this cause, O Romans, I assure you that I have undertaken wholly for the sake of the republic; and I am so far from thinking that I have gained by it the favour of any influential man, that I know, on the other hand, that I have brought on myself many enmities, some secret, some undisguised, which I never need have incurred, and which get will not be mischievous to you. But I have considered that I, invested with my present honours, and loaded with so many kindnesses from you, ought to prefer your inclination, and the dignity of the republic, and the safety of our provinces and allies, to all considerations of my own private interest.

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.) — 71 focus

[71] quam ob rem, si quid¹ in hac causa mihi susceptum est, Quirites, id ego omne² me rei publicae causa suscepisse confirmo, tantumque abest ut aliquam mihi bonam gratiam quaesisse videar, ut multas me³ etiam simultates partim obscuras, partim apertas intellegam mihi non necessarias, vobis non inutilis suscepisse. sed ego me hoc honore praeditum, tantis vestris⁴ beneficiis adfectum statui, Quirites, vestram voluntatem et rei publicae dignitatem et salutem provinciarum atque sociorum meis omnibus commodis et rationibus praeferre oportere.

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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

mihi : § 375 (232, a); B. 189, 2; G. 354; H. 431 (388, 1); H.-B. 373, 2.

tantum. . . abest ut. . . videar , I am so far from seeming: § 571 , b (332, d); G. 552, a.1; H. 570, 2 (502, 3); cf. H-B. 521, 3, a, footnote 2, (3).

hoc honore , i.e. the praetorship.

oportere , I am bound:

me (l.16) is subject of praeferre, and me praeferre depends on oportere.

M. Tullius Cicero De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 71

Charles Duke Yonge (Translator)

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