M. Tullius Cicero, Pro P. Sulla, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 89

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[89] hic¹ vos orat, iudices, parvus, ut se aliquando si non integra fortuna, at ut² adflicta patri suo gratulari sinatis. huic misero notiora sunt itinera iudiciorum³ et fori quam campi et⁴ disciplinarum. non iam de vita P. Sullae, iudices, sed de sepultura contenditur; vita erepta est superiore iudicio, nunc ne corpus eiciatur laboramus. quid enim est huic reliqui quod eum in hac vita⁵ teneat, aut quid est quam ob rem haec cuiquam vita videatur? 32 nuper is homo fuit in civitate P. Sulla ut nemo ei se neque honore neque gratia neque fortunis anteferret, nunc spoliatus omni dignitate quae erepta sunt non repetit; quod fortuna in malis reliqui fecit, ut cum parente, cum liberis, cum fratre, cum his necessariis lugere⁶ suam calamitatem liceat, id sibi ne eripiatis vos, iudices, obtestatur.

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.) — 89 focus

[89] This little child entreats you, O judges, to allow him occasionally to congratulate his father, if not with his fortunes unimpaired, at least to congratulate him in his affliction. The roads to the courts of justice and to the forum are better known to that unhappy boy, than the roads to his playground or to his school. I am contending now, O judges, not for the life of Publius Sulla, but for his burial. His life was taken from him at the former trial; we are now striving to prevent his body from being cast out. For what has he left which need detain him in this life? or what is there to make any one think such an existence life at all?
32 Lately, Publius Sulla was a man of such consideration in the state, that no one thought himself superior to him either in honour, or in influence, or in good fortune. Now, stripped of all his dignity, he does not seek to recover what has been taken away from him; but he does entreat you, O judge; not to take from him the little which fortune has left him in his disasters,—namely, the permission to bewail his calamities in company with his parent, with his children, with his brother; and with his friends.

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Pro P. Sulla

1. hoc T parvus TE πk: patruus cett.

2. at ut TE π: ut apc: at (ac g) cett.

3. itinera iudic. TE: iudic. itinera cett.

4. campi et E: et T: om. cett.

5. hac vita TE π: vita hac cett.

6. lugere TE πab1: iungere cett.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro P. Sulla 89

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