M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 17

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[17] quod si ipsi haec neque attingere neque sensu nostro gustare possemus, tamen ea mirari deberemus, etiam cum in aliis videremus.

8 quis nostrum tam animo agresti¹ ac duro fuit ut Rosci morte nuper non commoveretur²? qui cum esset senex mortuus, tamen propter excellentem artem ac venustatem videbatur omnino mori non debuisse. ergo ille corporis motu tantum amorem sibi conciliarat a nobis omnibus; nos³ animorum incredibilis motus celeritatemque ingeniorum neglegemus⁴?

Pro Archia Poeta. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1911.

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Pro Archia Poeta (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 6. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911.)

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For A.L. Archias Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 2. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.) — 17 focus

[17]
And if we ourselves were not able to arrive at these advantages, nor even taste them with our senses, still we ought to admire them, even when we saw them in others. Who of us was of so ignorant and brutal a disposition as not lately to be grieved at the death of Roscius? who, though he was an old man when he died, yet on account of the excellence and beauty of his art, appeared to be one who on every account ought not to have died. Therefore, had he by the gestures of his body gained so much of our affections, and shall we disregard the incredible movements of the mind, and the rapid operations of genius?

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Pro Archia Poeta

1. quis animo tam agresti et Schol.

2. morte non moveretur Schol.

3. nos hos Ernesti

4. negligimus a ςgp

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Commentary on Oration For Archias (Select Orations of Cicero (Allen and Greenough's Edition). Greenough, James Bradstreet; Kittredge, George Lyman, editors. Boston, London: Ginn & Company, 1897.) focus

Grati , the complainant (see Introd., p.154 of text).

religione , conscientiousness .

desideras , call for (lit. miss, feel the want of).

Italico bello , i.e. the Social War: § 424 , d (259, a); G. 394, R.; H. 486 (429); H-B. 439, a, 3.

municipi : since the bestowal of the Roman citizenship, the Italian civitates had become Roman municipia (see Introd., p. liii).

idem , you yourself (lit. the same man).

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