M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 13

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[13] vident enim¹ et sentiunt hoc idem quod vos, unum virum esse in quo summa² sint omnia, et eum propter esse³, quo etiam carent aegrius; cuius adventu ipso atque nomine, tametsi ille ad maritimum bellum venerit, tamen impetus hostium repressos esse intellegunt ac retardatos. hi vos, quoniam libere loqui non licet, taciti⁴ rogant ut se quoque⁵ dignos existimetis quorum salutem tali viro commendetis, atque hoc etiam magis quod ceteras in provincias eius modi homines cum imperio mittimus ut, etiam si ab hoste defendant, tamen ipsorum adventus in⁶ urbis sociorum non multum ab hostili expugnatione differant, hunc audiebant antea, nunc praesentem vident tanta temperantia, tanta mansuetudine, tanta humanitate ut ei beatissimi esse videantur apud quos ille diutissime commoretur⁷.

De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1908.

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

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In Defense of the Proposed Manilian Law Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.) — 13 focus

[13] They see and feel this, the same thing which you too see and feel,—that there is one man in whom all qualities are in the highest perfection, and that he is near, (which circumstance makes it seem harder to be deprived of him,) by whose mere arrival and name, although it was a maritime war for which he came, they are nevertheless aware that the attacks of the enemy were retarded and repressed. They then, since they cannot speak freely, silently entreat you to think them (as you have thought your allies in the other provinces) worthy of having their safety recommended to such a man; and to think them worthy even more than others, because we often send men with absolute authority into such a province as theirs, of such character, that, even if they protect them from the enemy, still their arrival among the cities of the allies is not very different from an invasion of the enemy. They used to hear of him before, now they see him among them; a man of such moderation, such mildness, such humanity, that those seem to be the happiest people among whom he remains for the longest time.

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De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites

1. enim H: om. cett.

2. summa om. H

3. prope esse Hb ψ

4. taciti H: tacite cett.

5. quoque sicut ceterarum provinciarum socios add. codd.: ego delevi: quod ceteras in provincias eiusmodi H ( cf. §65): quod ceteros in provinciam (hanc provinciam coni. Lambinus) eiusmodi Et: quod ceteros eiusmodi in provinciam W πσ: quam ceteros quod eiusmodi in provinciam b2 ψ2

6. aditus in H urbe Et σ

7. commoretur H ( corr. m. 1), Lambinus: commoratur cett.

Commentary

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

propter , at hand.

quo : abl. of degree of difference with aegrius .

adventa ipso , by his mere coining.

maritimum , i.e. the war against the pirates, which Pompey had just finished with great glory.

ceterarum provinciarum , i.e. those assigned to Pompey by the Gabinian Law, which gave him power over the entire Mediterranean and the coasts fifty miles inland. This would not include the province of Bithynia, nor the greater part of Asia. The Manilian Law extended his power over the entire East.

quorum . . . commendetis : § 535 ,f(320,f); B. 282,3; G. 631,1; H. 591, 7 (503, ii, 2); H.-B. 513, 3.

etiam si defendant : subj. of integral part.

non multum , etc.: the expression was hardly too strong for the general type of provincial governors. cf. "The Plunder of Syracuse," ( Verr. 2.4.42 , Verr. 2.4.46 ) where Cicero contrasts the moderation of Marcellus in time of war with the rapacity of Verres in time of peace.

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