M. Tullius Cicero, Pro P. Sulla, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 6

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[6] quis nostrum adfuit Vargunteio? nemo, ne hic quidem Q. Hortensius¹, praesertim qui illum solus antea de ambitu defendisset. non enim iam se ullo officio cum illo coniunctum arbitrabatur, cum ille tanto scelere commisso omnium officiorum societatem diremisset. quis nostrum Serv. Sullam, quis Publium², quis M. Laecam, quis C.³ Cornelium defendendum putavit, quis eis horum⁴ adfuit? nemo. quid ita? quia ceteris in⁵ causis etiam nocentis viri boni, si necessarii sunt, deserendos⁶ esse non putant; in hoc crimine non solum levitatis est culpa⁷ verum etiam quaedam contagio sceleris, si defendas eum⁸ quem obstrictum esse patriae parricidio⁹ suspicere.

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.) — 6 focus

[6] No one. Why was that? Because in other causes good men think that they ought not to refuse to defend even guilty men, if they are their own intimate personal friends; but in this prosecution, there would not only be the fault of acting lightly, but there would be even some infection of wickedness which would taint one who defended that man whom he suspected of being involved in the guilt of planning the parricide of his country.

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Pro P. Sulla

1. Q. om. e

2. Publium P. Lentulum ς

3. C. suppl. Manutius

4. iis horum Garatoni: horum iis πk: his horum cett.

5. in ceteris e

6. deserendos e: defendendos cett.

7. culpa est Tk: culpa e

8. eum om. T

9. parricidio TEea π: om. cett.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro P. Sulla 6

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