M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 52

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[52] Pompeio summa esse omnia. quid igitur ait Hortensius? si uni omnia tribuenda sint, dignissimum¹ esse Pompeium, sed ad unum tamen omnia deferri non oportere. obsolevit iam ista oratio² re multo magis quam verbis refutata. nam tu idem, Q. Quinti Hortensi, multa pro tua summa copia ac singulari facultate dicendi et in senatu contra virum fortem, A. Aulum Gabinium³, graviter ornateque dixisti, cum is de uno imperatore contra praedones constituendo legem promulgasset, et ex hoc ipso loco permulta item⁴ contra eam legem verba fecisti.

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.) — 52 focus

[52] What, then, does Hortensius say? “That if the whole power must be given to one man, Pompeius alone is most worthy to have it, but that, nevertheless, the power ought not to be entrusted to one individual.” That argument, however, has now become obsolete, having been refuted much more by facts than by words. For you, also, Quintus Hortensius, said many things with great force and fluency (as might be expected from your exceeding ability, and eminent facility as an orator) in the senate against that brave man, Aulus Gabinius, when he had brought forward the law about appointing one commander-in-chief against the pirates; and also from this place where I now stand, you made a long speech against that law.

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De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites

1. unum dignissimum b σ

2. ratio ψ1

3. A. om. H

4. item HW: idem cett.

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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

tribuenda sint : condition with nothing implied (in dir. disc., sunt ).

pro , in accordance with.

in senatu : laws did not require any ratification by the Senate. The expression of opinion by Hortensius must therefore have been in an informal discussion, after the promulgation of the law (i.e. its announcement as a proposed bill).

Gabiniurh : see Introd., p.67 of text.

promulgasset : a bill intended to be brought before either comitia was regularly announced to the Senate and posted in the city two Roman weeks (at least 17 days) before it could be voted on.

ex hoc ipso loco , i.e. in the public discussion of the law, before the vote, in the contio (see sect. 1 ).

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