M. Tullius Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 164

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[164] habetis, iudices, quae in totam causam¹ de moribus A. Auli Cluenti quem illi invidiosum esse reum volunt² annos octo meditati accusatores conlegerint³, quam levia genere ipso, quam falsa re, quam brevia responsu⁴! 60 cognoscite nunc id quod ad vestrum ius iurandum pertinet, quod vestri iudici est, quod vobis oneris imposuit ea lex qua coacti huc convenistis, de criminibus veneni, ut omnes intellegant quam paucis verbis haec causa perorari potuerit, et quam multa a me dicta sint quae ad huius voluntatem maxime, ad vestrum iudicium minime pertinerent.

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.) — 164 focus

[164]
You have now, O judges, everything which the prosecutors, after eight years' meditation, have been able to collect against the morals of Aulus Cluentius during his whole life, the man whom they state to be so hated and unpopular. Charges how insignificant in their kind! how false in their facts! how briefly replied to! 60
Learn now this, which has a reference to your oath, which belongs to your tribunal, which is a burden the law has imposed on you, in accordance with which you have assembled here,—the law, I mean, about accusations of poison; so that all may understand in how few words this cause may be summed up, and how many things have been said by me which had a great deal to do with the inclination of my client, but very little with your decision.

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Pro A. Cluentio

1. causam αa: vitam M μ

2. esse reum volunt Σa: reum (re niti b2 ψ2) volunt esse M μ

3. collegerint Σ: collegerunt cett.

4. responsu M σ: responso αa: responsa b1 ψ1

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