M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 2

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[2] ac ne quis a nobis hoc ita dici forte miretur, quod alia quaedam in hoc facultas sit ingeni neque haec dicendi ratio aut¹ disciplina, ne² nos quidem huic uni³ studio penitus umquam dediti fuimus. etenim omnes artes quae ad humanitatem pertinent habent quoddam commune vinclum⁴ et quasi cognatione quadam inter se continentur.

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.) — 2 focus

[2] And lest any one should, perchance, marvel at this being said by me, as the chief of his ability consists in something else, and not in this system and practice of eloquence, he must be told that even we ourselves have never been wholly devoted to this study. In truth, all the arts which concern the civilising and humanising of men, have some link which binds them together, and are, as it were, connected by some relationship to one another.

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Pro Archia Poeta

1. aut ac ςb

2. ne GEeb: nec cett.

3. huic uni Lambinus: huic cuncti codd.: huicce uni Puteanus

4. vinclum G ςgp: vinculum cett.

Commentary

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

neque , and not.

dicendi ratio aut disciplina , art or science of oratory.

ne nos quidem , etc., i.e. not even I, though by profession an orator, have devoted myself to oratory alone.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro Archia Poeta 2

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