M. Tullius Cicero, Pro L. Murena, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 80

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[80] nolite arbitrari, mediocribus consiliis aut usitatis viis¹ eos uti². non lex improba, non perniciosa largitio, non³ auditum aliquando aliquod malum rei publicae quaeritur. inita sunt in hac civitate consilia, iudices, urbis delendae, civium trucidandorum, nominis Romani exstinguendi. atque haec cives, cives⁴, inquam, si eos hoc nomine appellari fas est, de patria sua et cogitant et cogitaverunt. Horum ego cotidie consiliis occurro, audaciam debilito, sceleri resisto. sed moneo, iudices. in exitu iam est meus consulatus; nolite mihi subtrahere vicarium meae diligentiae, nolite adimere eum cui rem publicam cupio tradere incolumem ab his tantis periculis defendendam.

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.) — 80 focus

[80] Do not think that they should exploit ordinary counsels or the ordinary modes of proceeding It is not some unjust law, some mischievous bribery, or some improprieties in the republic that have just been heard of; that are the real objects for your inquiry now. Plans have been formed in this state, O judges, for destroying the city, for massacring the citizens, for extinguishing the Roman name. They are citizens,—citizens, I say, (if indeed it is lawful to call them by this name,) who are forming and have formed these plans respecting their own country. Every day I am counteracting their designs, disarming their audacity, resisting their wickedness. But I warn you, O judges; my consulship is now just at an end. Do not refuse me a successor in my diligence; do not refuse me him, to whom I am anxious to deliver over the republic in a sound condition, that he may defend it from these great dangers. 38

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Pro L. Murena

1. viis ed. Guar.: vitis ΣA χ: vitiis cett.

2. eos uti scripsi: aut codd.: lacunam statuit Ernesti

3. largitio non w: largitionum mei

4. cives, cives ψ2, ed. R: quae siue ( in mg. quaesiue) Σ: quae cives A πω: quae si cives χψ1: cives φ, Quintil. ix. 2, 18

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