M. Tullius Cicero, Pro P. Sulla, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 74

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[74] postea vero quis P.Sullam nisi maerentem, demissum adflictumque vidit, quis umquam est suspicatus hunc magis odio quam pudore hominum aspectum lucemque vitare? qui cum multa haberet invitamenta urbis et fori propter summa studia amicorum, quae tamen¹ ei sola in malis restiterunt, afuit² ab oculis vestris³ et, cum lege retineretur, ipse se exsilio paene multavit. 27 in hoc vos pudore, iudices⁴, et in hac vita tanto sceleri locum fuisse credatis⁵? aspicite ipsum, contuemini os, conferte crimen cum vita, vitam⁶ ab initio usque⁷ ad hoc tempus explicatam⁸ cum crimine recognoscite.

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.) — 74 focus

[74] But, after this misfortune, who ever saw Publius Sulla otherwise than grieving, dejected, and out of spirits? Who ever suspected that he was avoiding the sight of men and the light of day, out of hatred, and not rather out of shame? For though he had many temptations to frequent this city and the forum, by reason of the great attachment of his friends to him, the only consolation which remained to him in his misfortunes, still he kept out of your sight; and though he might have remained here as far as the law went he almost condemned himself to banishment.
27 In such modest conduct as this, O judges, and in such a life as this, will you believe that there was any room left for such enormous wickedness? Look at the man himself; behold his countenance. Compare the accusation with his course of life. Compare his life, which has been laid open before you from his birth up to this day, with this accusation.

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Pro P. Sulla

1. tamen tantum π: tum ς: post afuit transp. Fleckeisen

2. affuit Ta: abfuit cett.: corr. Lambinus

3. nostris ςb1gc

4. iudicii codd.: corr. Angelius

5. credatis Zielinski ( p. 204): creditis codd.

6. vitam TE: om. cett.

7. ab initio usque T πa: ab initio E: usque cett.

8. explicatam TE: explicata cett.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro P. Sulla 74

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