M. Tullius Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 104

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[104] Fidiculanius¹ quid fecisse² dicebatur? accepisse a Cluentio HS cccc³. cuius erat ordinis? senatorii. qua lege in eo genere a senatore ratio repeti solet, de pecuniis repetundis, ea lege accusatus honestissime est absolutus. Acta est enim causa more maiorum sine vi, sine metu, sine periculo; dicta et exposita et demonstrata sunt omnia. adducti⁴ iudices sunt non modo potuisse honeste ab eo reum condemnari qui non perpetuo sedisset sed, aliud si⁵ is iudex nihil scisset, nisi quae praeiudicia de eo facta esse constaret⁶, audire praeterea nihil debuisse.

Pro A. Cluentio. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1908.

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Pro A. Cluentio (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 1. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.)

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For A. Cluentius Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.) — 104 focus

[104]
What was Fidiculanius said to have done? To have received from Cluentius four hundred sesterces. Of what rank was he? A senator. He was accused according to that law by which an account is properly demanded of a senator in a prosecution for peculation, and he was most honourably acquitted. For the cause was pleaded according to the custom of our ancestors, without violence, without fear, without danger. Everything was fairly stated, and explained, and proved. The judges were taught that not only could a defendant be honestly condemned by a man who had not sat as a judge uninterruptedly, but that if that judge had known nothing else except what previous investigations it was clear had taken place in the case, he ought to have heard nothing else.

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Pro A. Cluentio

1. Fidiculanus Σ b

2. fecisset Σχ

3. accepisse... cccc om. ψ1

4. adducti b ψ2a ( cf. Fin. 1. 14): ad docti Σψ1: at ducti χ: addocti unus det.

5. aliud si Halm: aliud is (si is t) codd.: si aliud is Beroaldus

6. constaret Naugerius (2): constarent codd, ( cf. Rosc. Am. 118)

M. Tullius Cicero Pro A. Cluentio 104

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