M. Tullius Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 8

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[8] etenim adhuc ita nostri cum illo rege contenderunt imperatores ut ab illo insignia victoriae, non victoriam reportarent. triumphavit L. ucius Sulla, triumphavit L. ucius Murena de Mithridate, duo fortissimi viri et summi imperatores, sed ita triumpharunt ut ille pulsus superatusque regnaret. verum tamen illis imperatoribus laus est tribuenda quod egerunt¹, venia danda quod reliquerunt, propterea quod ab eo bello Sullam in Italiam res publica, Murenam Sulla revocavit.

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.) — 8 focus

[8] Indeed up to this time your generals have been, contending with the king so as to carry off tokens of victory rather than actual victory. Lucius Sulla has triumphed, Lucius Murena has triumphed over Mithridates, two most gallant men, and most consummate generals; but yet they have triumphed in such a way that he, though routed and defeated, was still king. Not but what praise is to be given to those generals for what they did. Pardon must be conceded to them for what they left undone; because the republic recalled Sulla from that war into Italy , and Sulla recalled Murena.

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De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites

1. egerunt triumphum H: egerunt tanta olim conieci: regem fregerunt coni. Müller

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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

etenim , for (you will notice).

triumphavit de : not triumphed over, but celebrated a triumph for a victory over. The word is repeated in emphatic antithesis to the clause sed . . . regnaret.

regnaret , was still a king (i.e. in possession of his kingdom).

verum tamen , but still.

quod egerunt , for what they have done: by a Latin idiom quod is here equivalent to propter id quod.

res publica , the public: interest Sulla had hastened to make an unsatisfactory peace, that he might return and restore order in Italy, which was in the power of the Marian faction.

M. Tullius Cicero De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 8

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