M. Tullius Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 202

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[202] iudices, satis multos annos ex invidia laboravit. nemo huic tam iniquus¹ praeter parentem² fuit cuius animum non³ iam expletum putemus⁴. vos qui aequi estis omnibus, qui ut quisque crudelissime oppugnatur eum lenissime sublevatis, conservate A. Aulum Cluentium, restituite incolumem municipio; amicis, vicinis, hospitibus quorum studia videtis reddite, vobis in perpetuum liberisque vestris obstringite. vestrum est hoc, iudices, vestrae dignitatis, vestrae clementiae; recte hoc repetitur a vobis ut virum optimum atque innocentissimum plurimisque mortalibus carum⁵ atque iucundum⁶ his aliquando calamitatibus liberetis, ut omnes intellegant in contionibus esse invidiae locum, in iudiciis veritati.

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.) — 202 focus

[202] He has been long enough, O judges, in misery. He has been years enough struggling with odium. No one has been so hostile to him, except his parent, that we may not think his ill-will satisfied by this time. You who are just to all men, who, the more cruelly any one is attacked, do the more kindly protect him, preserve Aulus Cluentius, restore him uninjured to his municipality. Restore him to his friends, and neighbours, and connections, whose eagerness in his behalf you see. Bind all those men for ever to you and to your children. This business, O judges, is yours; it is worthy of your dignity, it is worthy of your clemency. This is rightly expected of you, to release a most virtuous and innocent man, one dear and beloved by many men, at last from these his misfortunes; so that all men may see that odium and faction may be excited in popular assemblies, but that in courts of justice there is room only for truth.

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Pro A. Cluentio

1. iniquos ΣAB π

2. parentum ΣA

3. animum non b χψ: animum ΣAB πφ: non animum a

4. putemus B: esse putemus cett. ( cf. Zielinski p. 164)

5. carum carissimum Lambinus

6. iucundum Peterson: iucundissimum codd.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro A. Cluentio 202

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