M. Tullius Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 52

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[52] sed ut quidquid¹ ego apprehenderam², statim accusator extorquebat e manibus. si quaesiveram quae³ inimicitiae Scamandro cum habito, fatebatur nullas fuisse, sed Oppianicum cuius ille minister fuisset huic inimicissimum fuisse atque esse dicebat. sin autem illud egeram, nullum ad Scamandrum morte habiti venturum emolumentum fuisse, concedebat, sed ad uxorem Oppianici, hominis in uxoribus necandis exercitati, omnia bona habiti ventura fuisse⁴ dicebat. cum illa defensione usus essem quae in libertinorum causis honestissima semper existimata est, Scamandrum patrono esse probatum, fatebatur, sed quaerebat cui probatus esset ipse patronus⁵.

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.) — 52 focus

[52] But, whatever excuse I tried to put forth, the prosecutor immediately wrested out of my hands. If I asked what enmity there was between Scamander and Habitus, he admitted that there was none. But he said that Oppianicus, whose agent he had been, had always been and still was most hostile to Habitus. If again I urged that no advantage would accrue to Scamander by the death of Habitus; he admitted that, but he said that all the property of Habitus would come to the wife of Oppianicus, a man who had had plenty of practice in killing his wives. When I employed this argument in the defence, which has always been considered a most honourable one to use in the causes of freedmen, that Scamander was highly esteemed by his patron; he admitted that, but asked, Who had any opinion of that patron himself?

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Pro A. Cluentio

1. quidquid quidque Ascens. (i), cf. Madvig. Fin. v. 24

2. apprehenderam M μ: reprehenderam α s

3. quaesiveram Σa: quaesieram M μ

4. fuisse Σa: esse M μ

5. sed. . patronus om. a

M. Tullius Cicero Pro A. Cluentio 52

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