M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 35

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[35] Inde cum se¹ in Italiam recepisset, duabus Hispaniis et Gallia Transalpina² praesidiis ac navibus confirmata³, missis item in oram Illyrici maris et in Achaiam omnemque Graeciam navibus Italiae duo maria maximis classibus firmissimisque⁴ praesidiis adornavit, ipse autem ut Brundisio⁵ profectus est, undequinquagesimo die totam ad imperium populi Romani Ciliciam adiunxit; omnes qui ubique praedones fuerunt partim capti interfectique sunt, partim unius huius se imperio ac potestati dediderunt⁶. idem Cretensibus, cum ad eum usque in⁷ Pamphyliam legatos deprecatoresque misissent, spem deditionis non ademit obsidesque imperavit. ita tantum bellum, tam diuturnum, tam longe lateque dispersum, quo bello omnes gentes ac nationes premebantur, Cn. Gnaeus Pompeius extrema hieme apparavit, ineunte vere suscepit, media aestate confecit.

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.) — 35 focus

[35] when, leaving Sardinia , he came to Italy , having secured the two Spains and Cisalpine Gaul with garrisons and ships. Having sent vessels also to the coast of Illyricum , and to every part of Achaia and Greece , he also adorned the two seas of Italy with very large fleets, and very sufficient garrisons; and he himself going in person, added all Cilicia to the dominions of the Roman people, on the forty-ninth day after he set out from Brundusium . Will the pirates who were anywhere to be found, were either taken prisoners and put to death, or else had surrendered themselves voluntarily to the power and authority of this one man. Also, when the Cretans had sent ambassadors to implore his mercy even into Pamphylia to him, he did not deny them hopes of being allowed to surrender, and he exacted hostages from them. And thus Cnaeus Pompeius at the end of winter prepared, at the beginning of spring undertook, and by the middle of summer terminated, this most important war, which had lasted so long, which was scattered in such distant and such various places, and by which every nation and country was incessantly distressed.

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De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites

1. cum se HE: se cum cett.

2. Transalpina HE: Cisalpina πδ (Transalpina... Achaiam om. t)

3. confirmatis H

4. firmisque H

5. Brundisio HEW: a Brundisio cett. ( cf. §32)

6. huius se... dediderunt HE: huius... se dediderunt b π: huius... se dederunt (did- t) t σψ

7. usque in usque Hb1

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

Cretensibus : Quintus Metellus, the proconsul (the friend of Verres), had reduced Crete nearly to submission, deriving from this his cognomen Creticus. The Cretans, alienated by his harshness, sent to Pompey, that he, rather than Metellus, might receive their surrender, which Pompey was very willing to do. Civil war nearly broke out between the two commanders in consequence. Pompey, however, who had his hands full in Asia, withdrew from the field and left the honors to his rival.

M. Tullius Cicero De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 35

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