M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 65

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[65] difficile est dictu, Quirites, quanto in odio simus apud exteras nationes propter eorum quos ad eas per hos annos cum imperio misimus libidines et iniurias¹. quod enim fanum² putatis in illis terris nostris magistratibus religiosum, quam civitatem sanctam, quam domum³ satis clausam ac munitam fuisse? Vrbes iam locupletes et copiosae requiruntur quibus causa belli propter diripiendi facultatem⁴ inferatur.

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.) — 65 focus

[65] It is difficult to tell you, O Romans, how great our unpopularity is among foreign nations, on account of the injurious and licentious behaviour of those whom we have of late years sent among them with military command. For, in all those countries which are now under our dominion, what temple do you think has had a sufficiently holy reputation, what city has been sufficiently sacred, what private house has been sufficiently closed and fortified, to be safe from them? They seek out wealthy and splendid cities to find presence for making war on them for the sake of plundering them.

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De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites

1. libidines et iniurias HET: iniurias et libidines δ

2. fanum fuisse H

3. quam tutam domum H ( olim conieci quam tutam domum, quam satis clausam et munitam urbem)

4. facultatem H: cupiditatem 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

requiruntur , are in demand, i.e. pretexts of war are sought, with cities that we hardly know of;

inferatur , may be fastened.

M. Tullius Cicero De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 65

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