M. Tullius Cicero, Pro P. Sulla, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 55

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[55] at litterae sunt Fausti,per quas ille precibus a P. Sulla petit ut emat gladiatores et ut hos ipsos emat, neque solum ad Sullam missae sed ad L. Caesarem, Q. Pompeium, C. Memmium, quorum de sententia tota res gesta est. at praefuit familiae Cornelius¹, libertus eius². iam si in paranda familia nulla suspicio est, quis³ praefuerit⁴ nihil ad rem pertinet; sed⁵ tamen munere servili⁶ obtulit se ad ferramenta prospicienda, praefuit vero numquam, eaque res omni tempore⁷ per bellum⁸, Fausti libertum, administrata est.

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.) — 55 focus

[55] But there are letters of Faustus's extant, in which he begs and prays Publius Sulla to buy gladiators, and to buy this very troop: and not only were such letters sent to Publius Sulla, but they were sent also to Lucius Caesar, to Quintus Pompeius, and to Gains Memmius, by whose advice the whole business was managed. But Cornelius ¹ was appointed to manage the troop. If in the respect of the purchase of this household of gladiators no suspicion attaches to the circumstances, it certainly can make no difference that he was appointed to manage them afterwards. But still, he in reality only discharged the servile duty of providing them with arms; but he never did superintend the men themselves; that duty was always discharged by Balbus, a freedman of Faustus.

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Pro P. Sulla

1. Cornelius del. Manutius

2. libertus eius ( i. e. L. eius) supplevi: notam L (=libertus) excidisse vidit Orelli, qui P. L. ( i. e. Publi libertus) coni.

3. quis Ta: quod cett.

4. praefuerit T: praefuit b2 ψ1ς: profert cett.

5. sed fort. is

6. Servili Lag. 9, Madvig ( melius esset Servi, i. e. Serv. Sullae, cf. § 6)

7. omni tempore hoc loco hab. T. post libert. cett.

8. Balbum E

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