M. Tullius Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 117

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[117] 42 sequitur id quod illi iudicium appellant, maiores autem nostri numquam neque iudicium nominarunt neque proinde ut rem iudicatam observarunt, animadversio atque auctoritas censoria¹. qua de re ante quam dicere incipio, perpauca mihi de meo officio verba facienda² sunt, ut a me cum huiusce periculi tum³ ceterorum quoque officiorum et amicitiarum ratio conservata esse videatur. nam mihi cum viris fortibus qui censores proxime fuerunt ambobus est amicitia; cum altero vero, sicuti⁴ plerique vestrum⁵ sciunt, magnus usus et summa utriusque officiis⁶ constituta necessitudo⁷ est⁸.

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.) — 117 focus

[117]
That follows, which they call a trial, but which our ancestors never called a trial, and never paid any attention to as if it had been a formal judicial decision, the animadversion and authority of the censors. But before I begin to speak on that subject, I must say a few words about my own duty, in order that it may be clearly seen that I have paid proper attention to this danger, and also to all other considerations of duty and friendship.
For I have a friendship with both those brave men who were the last censors; and with one of them, (as most of you are aware,) I have the greatest intimacy, and the closest connection cemented by mutual good offices.

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Pro A. Cluentio

1. animadversio atque auctoritas censoria Manutius: animadversionem atque auctoritatem censoriam M μa

2. faciunda a

3. periculi tum periculo a

4. sicuti Σa: sicuti et M μ

5. vestri a

6. officiis Manutius: officii M μa

7. necessitudo M μ: consuetudo αa: censuit B

8. est om. a

M. Tullius Cicero Pro A. Cluentio 117

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