M. Tullius Cicero, Pro L. Murena, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 87

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[87] nolite, per deos immortalis! iudices, hac eum cum¹ re qua se honestiorem fore putavit etiam ceteris ante partis honestatibus atque omni dignitate fortunaque privare. atque ita vos L. Lucius Murena², iudices, orat atque obsecrat, si iniuste³ neminem laesit, si nullius auris voluntatemve violavit, si nemini, ut levissime dicam, odio nec domi nec militiae fuit, sit apud vos modestiae locus, sit demissis⁴ hominibus perfugium, sit auxilium pudori. misericordiam spoliatio consulatus magnam habere debet, iudices; una enim eripiuntur cum consulatu omnia; invidiam vero his temporibus habere consulatus ipse nullam potest; obicitur enim contionibus seditiosorum, insidiis coniuratorum, telis Catilinae, ad omne denique periculum atque ad omnem iniuriam⁵ solus opponitur.

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.) — 87 focus

[87] Do not, in the name of the immortal gods, O judges, deprive him not only of that office which he thought conferred additional honour on him, and at the same time of all the honours which he had gained before, and of all his dignity and fortune. And, O judges, what Lucius Murena is begging and entreating of you is no more than this; that if he has done no injury unjustly to any one, if he has offended no man's ears or inclination, if he has never (to say the least) given any one reason to hate him either at home or when engaged in war, he may in that case find among you moderation in judging, and a refuge for men in dejection, and assistance for modest merit. The deprivation of the consulship is a measure calculated to excite great feelings of pity, O judges. For with the consulship everything else is taken away too. And at such times as these the consulship itself is hardly a thing to envy a man. For it is exposed to the harangues of seditious men, to the plots of conspirators, to the attacks of Catiline. It is opposed single-handed to every danger, and to every sort of unpopularity.

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Pro L. Murena

1. eum cum Garatoni: cum B: eum cett.

2. L. Lag. 24: si (sic χψ) mei

3. iniuste om. Σ in lac.

4. demisso animo Bake

5. iniuriam Halbertsma: invidiam codd.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro L. Murena 87

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