M. Tullius Cicero, Pro P. Sulla, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 53

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[53] 19 hoc tempore, cum arderet acerrime coniuratio, cum Catilina egrederetur ad exercitum, Lentulus in urbe relinqueretur, Cassius incendiis, Cethegus caedi praeponeretur, Autronio ut occuparet Etruriam praescriberetur, cum omnia ornarentur¹, instruerentur², pararentur, ubi fuit Sulla, Corneli? num Romae? immo longe afuit³. num in⁴ eis⁵ regionibus⁶ quo se Catilina inferebat⁷? multo etiam longius. num in agro Camerti, Piceno, Gallico, quas in⁸ oras maxime quasi morbus quidam illius furoris pervaserat? nihil vero minus. fuit enim, ut iam ante dixi, Neapoli, fuit in ea parte Italiae quae maxime ista⁹ suspicione caruit.

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.) — 53 focus

[53] At this time, when the conspiracy was at its height; when Catiline was starting for the army, and Lentulus was being left in the city; when Cassius was being appointed to superintend the burning of the city, and Cethegus the massacre; when Autronius had the part allotted to him of occupying Italy; when, in short, everything was being arranged, and settled, and prepared; where, O Cornelius, was Sulla? Was he at Rome? No, he was very far away. Was he in those districts to which Catiline was betaking himself? He was still further from them. Was he in the Camertine, Picenian, or Gallic district? lands which the disease, as it were, of that frenzy had infected most particularly. Nothing is further from the truth; for he was, as I have said already, at Naples. He was in that part of Italy which above all others was free from all suspicion of being implicated in that business.

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Pro P. Sulla

1. ornarentur Landgraf: ordinarentur codd. ( cf. § 75)

2. instruerentur T π: instituerentur cett.

3. affuit Ta: abfuit cett.: corr. Halm

4. in om. T

5. iis Tk: his cett.

6. regionibus Tc1: legionibus cett.

7. referebat c2

8. in Ta: om. cett.

9. ista T: ea cett.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro P. Sulla 53

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