M. Tullius Cicero, Pro P. Sulla, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 91

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[91] O miserum et infelicem illum diem quo consul omnibus centuriis P. Sulla renuntiatus est, o falsam spem, o volucrem fortunam, o caecam cupiditatem, o praeposteram gratulationem! quam cito illa omnia ex laetitia et voluptate ad luctum et lacrimas recciderunt¹, ut, qui paulo ante consul designatus fuisset, repente nullum vestigium retineret² pristinae dignitatis! quid enim erat mali quod huic spoliato fama, honore³, fortunis deesse videretur? aut cui novae calamitati locus ullus relictus⁴? Vrget eadem fortuna quae coepit, repperit novum maerorem, non patitur hominem calamitosum uno malo⁵ adflictum uno in luctu perire.

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.) — 91 focus

[91] Oh, wretched and unhappy was that day on which Publius Sulla was declared consul by all the centuries! O how false were the hopes! how fleeting the good fortune! how blind the desire! how unreasonable the congratulations! How soon was all that scene changed from joy and pleasure to mourning and tears, when he, who but a short time before had been consul elect, had on a sudden no trace left of his previous dignity. For what evil was there which seemed then to be wanting to him when he was thus stripped of honour, and fame, and fortune? or what room could there be left for any new calamity? The same fortune continues to pursue him which followed him from the first; she finds a new source of grief for him; she will not allow an unfortunate man to perish when he has been afflicted in only one way, and by only one disaster.

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Pro P. Sulla

1. recc. Zielinski: rec. codd.

2. retineret hoc loco hab. TE, post fuisset ( om. repente a) cett.

3. fama honore TE π: honore fama cett.

4. relictus esset (est b1: esse cod. H. Stephani) add. codd.: ego delevi

5. malo TE: modo cett.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro P. Sulla 91

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