M. Tullius Cicero, Pro P. Sulla, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 28

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[28] etenim in qua civitate res tantas¹ gesserim memini, in qua² urbe verser³ intellego. plenum forum est eorum hominum quos ego a vestris cervicibus depuli⁴, iudices, a meis non removi. Nisi vero paucos fuisse arbitramini qui conari aut sperare possent se tantum imperium posse delere. Horum ego faces eripere de manibus et gladios extorquere potui, sicuti⁵ feci, voluntates vero consceleratas ac nefarias nec sanare potui nec tollere. qua re non sum nescius quanto periculo vivam in tanta multitudine improborum, cum mihi uni cum omnibus improbis aeternum videam bellum esse susceptum⁶.

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.) — 28 focus

[28] In truth, I recollect in what state it is that I have done such great exploits, and in what city I am living. The forum is full of those men whom I, O judges, have taken off from your necks, but have not removed from my own. Unless you think that they were only a few men, who were able to attempt or to hope that they might be able to destroy so vast an empire. I was able to take away their firebrands, to wrest their torches from their hands, as I did; but their wicked and impious inclinations I could neither cure nor eradicate. Therefore I am not ignorant in what danger I am living among such a multitude of wicked men, since I see that I have undertaken single-handed an eternal war against all wicked men.

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Pro P. Sulla

1. rem tantam Schol.

2. in qua b1k, Schol.: et in qua (qua in T) cett.

3. verser (-or π) TEe π, Schol.: om. cett.

4. repuli e ψ2c

5. sicuti Te: sicut cett.

6. esse bellum susceptum T: bellum susceptum esse e

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