M. Tullius Cicero, Pro P. Sulla, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 25

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[25] ac¹ si, iudices, ceteris² patriciis me et vos peregrinos videri oporteret, a Torquato tamen hoc vitium³ sileretur; est enim ipse a⁴ materno genere municipalis, honestissimi ac nobilissimi generis, sed tamen Asculani. aut igitur doceat Picentis solos non esse⁵ peregrinos aut gaudeat suo generi me meum non anteponere⁶. qua re neque tu me peregrinum posthac dixeris, ne gravius refutere, neque regem, ne derideare. Nisi forte regium tibi videtur ita vivere ut non modo homini nemini sed ne cupiditati quidem ulli servias, contemnere omnis libidines, non auri, non argenti, non ceterarum rerum indigere, in senatu sentire libere, populi utilitati magis⁷ consulere quam voluntati, nemini cedere, multis obsistere. si hoc putas esse regium⁸, regem me esse⁹ confiteor; sin te potentia mea, si dominatio, si denique aliquod dictum adrogans aut superbum movet, quin tu id potius profers quam verbi invidiam contumeliamque maledicti?

Pro P. Sulla. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxonii. 1911.

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Pro P. Sulla (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 6. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911.)

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For P. Sulla Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.) — 25 focus

[25] And if, O judges, it is fit for me and you to be considered foreigners by the rest of the patricians, still nothing ought to be said about this blot by Torquatus. For he himself is on his mother's side, a citizen of a municipal town; a man of a most honourable and noble family, but still he comes from Asculum. Either let him, then, show that the Picentians alone are not foreigners, or else let him congratulate himself that I do not put my family before his. So do not for the future call me a foreigner, lest you meet with a sterner refutation; and do not call me a king, lest you be laughed at. Unless, indeed, it appears to be the conduct of a king to live in such a manner as not to be slave not only to any man, but not even to any passion; to despise all capricious desires; to covet neither gold nor silver, nor anything else; to form one's opinions in the senate with freedom; to consider the real interests of the people, rather than their inclinations; to yield to no one, to oppose many men. If you think that this is the conduct of a king, then I confess that I am a king. If my power, if my sway, it lastly, any arrogant or haughty expression of mine moves your indignation, then you should rather allege that, than stoop to raise odium against me by a name, and to employ mere abuse and insult.

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Pro P. Sulla

1. ac at eb1c, ed. V

2. ceteris om. e

3. hoc convicium Gulielmius

4. a om. Schol.

5. esse non e

6. non anteponere Te π: ante non ponere ( cf. Off. iii. 71) cett. ( meliore numero)

7. magis utilitati e

8. regium regnum πb1gc2k

9. regem me esse T: me regem esse cett.

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