M. Tullius Cicero, Pro L. Murena, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 57

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[57] respondebo igitur Postumo primum qui nescio quo pacto mihi videtur praetorius candidatus in consularem quasi desultorius in quadrigarum curriculum incurrere. cuius competitores si nihil deliquerunt, dignitati eorum concessit, cum petere destitit; sin autem eorum aliquis largitus est, expetendus amicus est¹ qui alienam potius iniuriam quam suam persequatur.

de Postumi criminibus, de Servi adulescentis².

Pro L. Murena. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1908.

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Pro L. Murena (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 1. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.)

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For L. Murena Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.) — 57 focus

[57] In the first instance then I will reply to Cnaeus Postumius, who, somehow or other, I know not how, while a candidate for the praetorship, appears to me to be a straggler into the course marked out for the candidates for the consulship, as the horse of a vaulter might escape into the course marked out for the chariot races. And if there is no fault whatever to be found with his competitors, then he has made a great concession to their worth in desisting from his canvass. But if any one of them has committed bribery, then he must look for some friend who will be more inclined to prosecute an injury done to another than one done to himself. [On the Charges of Postumius and of Servius.] 28

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Pro L. Murena

1. est ei est Heine

2. DE . . . ADVLESCENTIS om. A χ1ψ ( in lac. χ1): in mg. π est hic non est textus

M. Tullius Cicero Pro L. Murena 57

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