M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 34

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[34] atque haec qua celeritate gesta sint, quamquam videtis, tamen a me in dicendo praetereunda non sunt. quis enim umquam aut obeundi negoti aut consequendi quaestus studio tam brevi tempore tot loca adire, tantos cursus conficere potuit, quam celeriter Cn. Gnaeo Pompeio duce tanti belli impetus navigavit? qui nondum tempestivo ad navigandum mari¹ Siciliam adiit, Africam exploravit, inde² Sardiniam cum classe venit atque haec tria frumentaria subsidia rei publicae firmissimis praesidiis classibusque munivit.

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.) — 34 focus

[34] And although you have seen with what rapidity these things were done, still that rapidity ought not to be passed over by me in speaking of them.—For who ever, even if he were only going for the purpose of transacting business or making profit, contrived in so short a time to visit so many places, and to perform such long journeys, with as great celerity as Cnaeus Pompeius has performed his voyage, bearing with him the terrors of war as our general? He, when the weather could hardly be called open for sailing, went to Sicily , explored the coasts of Africa ; from thence he came with his fleet to Sardinia , and these three great granaries of the republic he fortified with powerful garrisons and fleets;

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De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites

1. nondum... mari hoc loco hab. HEW, post venit t πδ

2. inde in b1, Hotoman

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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

sunt : plur., agreeing directly with haec, instead of sing. est with the indir. question as subject; Cf. § 576 , N. (334, c, R.); G. 468; H. 649, ii, 4 (529, ii, 2); H.-B. 390, c. N.

tanti belli , etc., the rush of so great a war sped over the sea.

M. Tullius Cicero De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 34

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