M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 41

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[41] itaque omnes¹ nunc in eis locis Cn. Pompeium sicut aliquem non ex hac urbe missum sed de caelo delapsum intuentur; nunc denique incipiunt credere fuisse homines Romanos hac quondam² continentia, quod iam nationibus exteris incredibile ac falso memoriae proditum videbatur; nunc imperi vestri splendor illis gentibus lucem adferre coepit³; nunc intellegunt non sine causa maiores suos tum cum ea⁴ temperantia magistratus habebamus⁵ servire populo Romano quam imperare aliis maluisse. iam vero ita faciles aditus ad eum privatorum, ita liberae querimoniae de aliorum iniuriis esse dicuntur, ut is qui dignitate principibus excellit facilitate infimis par esse videatur.

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.) — 41 focus

[41] And, therefore, every one in those countries looks upon Cnaeus Pompeius as some one descended from heaven, not as some one sent out from this city. Now they begin to believe that there really were formerly Romans of the same moderation; which hitherto has seemed to foreign nations a thing incredible, a false and ridiculous tradition. Now the splendour of your dominion is really brilliant in the eyes of those nations. Now they understand that it was not without reason that, when we had magistrates of the same moderation, their ancestors preferred being subject to the Roman people to being themselves lords of other nations. But now the access of all private individuals to him is so easy, their complaints of the injuries received from others are so little checked, that he who in dignity is superior to the noblest men, in affability seems to be on a par with the meanest.

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De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites

1. omnes PHE: omnes quidem cett.

2. quondam quandam P: quadam H

3. lucem adferre coepit lucet δ

4. ea PH: hac cett.

5. habebamus PH δ: habeamus Et π

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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

fuisse : of. fuit on p. 81, l. 7 (and note).

hac continentia , i.e. such as his.

jam . . . videbatur , was now getting to seem.

nunc : notice the emphatic repetition ( anaphora ).

servire . . . quam imperare : a rhetorical exaggeration for preferring the condition of subject allies to nominal independence.

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