M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 26

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[26] Lucullus, qui tamen aliqua ex parte eis incommodis mederi fortasse potuisset, vestro iussu coactus qui¹ imperi diuturnitati modum statuendum vetere exemplo putavistis, partim militum qui iam stipendiis confectis² erant dimisit, partim³ M’. Glabrioni⁴ tradidit. multa praetereo consulto; sed ea vos coniectura perspicite quantum illud⁵ bellum factum putetis quod coniungant reges potentissimi, renovent agitatae nationes, suscipiant integrae gentes, novus imperator noster accipiat vetere exercitu pulso.

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.) — 26 focus

[26] At the very time of this misfortune,—of this most terrible disaster in the whole war, Lucius Lucullus, who might have been able, to a great extent, to remedy the calamity, being compelled by your orders, because you thought, according to the old principle of your ancestors, that limits ought to be put to length of command, discharged a part of his soldiers who had served their appointed time, and delivered over part to Glabrio. I pass over many things designedly; but you yourselves can easily conjecture how important you ought to consider that war which most powerful kings are uniting in,—which disturbed nations are renewing,—which nations, whose strength is unimpaired, are undertaking, and which anew general of yours has to encounter after a veteran army has been defeated.

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De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites

1. qui H: quod cett.

2. confectis H, Naugerius: confecti cett.

3. partim... partim Gulielmius: partem... partim H: partem... partem cett.

4. M’. Krause: om. codd.

5. illud om. H

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

tamen , i.e. though the defeat was so disastrous.

potuisset : subj. of characteristic; the cont. to fact idea which is also contained in the word would not have required the subj.; § 522 , a (311, c); B. 304,3; G. 597, a.3, a; H. 583 (511, I, N.1); H-B. 582, 3,a.

vestro jussu , i.e. by the Gabinian Law (see Introd., p. 66).

imperi : the military imperium could be extended after the term of office by the Senate. The holder of a command thus extended ( prorogatum) was called proconsul or propraetor. In this case Lucullus had now held command seven years, from B.C. 74.

conjungant , etc.: this sums up the considerations already urged as to the magnitude of the war (from sect. 23 ).

integrae , fresh (cf. p.76, ll.20, 21).

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