M. Tullius Cicero, Pro P. Sulla, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 84

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[84] quid ergo? hoc tibi sumis, dicet fortasse quispiam, ut, quia tu defendis¹, innocens iudicetur? ego vero, iudices, non modo mihi nihil adsumo in quo quispiam repugnet sed etiam, si quid ab omnibus conceditur, id reddo ac remitto. non in ea re publica versor, non eis temporibus caput meum² obtuli pro patria³ periculis omnibus, non aut ita sunt exstincti quos vici aut ita grati quos servavi, ut ego⁴ mihi plus appetere coner quam quantum⁵ omnes inimici invidique patiantur.

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.) — 84 focus

[84] “What, then, do you mean? Do you,” some one will say, perhaps, “claim that a man shall be judged innocent, just because you have defended him?” But I, O judges, not only claim nothing for myself to which any one can object, but I even give up and abandon pretensions which are granted and allowed me by every one. I am not living in such a republic—I have not exposed my life to all sorts of dangers for the sake of my country at such a time,—they whom I have defeated are not so utterly extinct,—nor are those whom I have preserved so grateful, that I should think it safe to attempt to assume more than all my enemies and enviers may endure.

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Pro P. Sulla

1. defendis TE πb2c: defenderis cett.

2. meum caput E

3. patriae codd.: corr. ed. Crat.

4. ego eo Ta ς1b χ

5. quam quantum quamquam tum TEa

M. Tullius Cicero Pro P. Sulla 84

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