M. Tullius Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 32

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[32] memoria teneo Milesiam quandam mulierem, cum essem in Asia, quod ab heredibus secundis¹ accepta pecunia partum sibi ipsa medicamentis abegisset, rei capitalis esse damnatam; nec² iniuria quae spem parentis, memoriam nominis, subsidium generis, heredem familiae, designatum rei publicae civem sustulisset. quanto est Oppianicus in eadem iniuria maiore supplicio dignus! si quidem illa, cum suo corpori vim attulisset, se ipsa cruciavit, hic autem idem illud effecit per alieni corporis mortem³ atque cruciatum. ceteri non videntur in singulis hominibus multa parricidia suscipere posse, Oppianicus inventus est qui in uno corpore pluris⁴ necaret.

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.) — 32 focus

[32]
I recollect that a certain Milesian woman, when I was in Asia , because she had by medicines brought on abortion, having been bribed to do so by the heirs in reversion, was convicted of a capital crime; and rightly, inasmuch as she had destroyed the hope of the father, the memory of his name, the supply of his race, the heir of his family, a citizen intended for the use of the republic. How much severer punishment does Oppianicus deserve for the same crime? For she, by doing this violence to her person, tortured her own body; but he effected this same crime through the torture and death of another. Other men do not appear to be able to commit many atrocious murders on one individual, but Oppianicus has been found clever enough to destroy many lives in one body.

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Pro A. Cluentio

1. secundis om. Σ Ba ( contra Quintil. viii. 4. 11)

2. nec Σa: neque M μ

3. mortem vim Quintil.

4. plures PM μ: multos Σψ2a

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