M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 20

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[20] neque enim quisquam est¹ tam aversus a Musis qui non mandari versibus aeternum suorum laborum praeconium² facile patiatur. Themistoclem illum, summum Athenis virum, dixisse aiunt, cum ex eo quaereretur quod³ acroama⁴ aut cuius vocem libentissime audiret: eius a quo sua virtus optime praedicaretur. itaque ille Marius item⁵ eximie L. Plotium dilexit, cuius ingenio putabat ea quae gesserat posse celebrari.

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.) — 20 focus

[20] For there was no one so disinclined to the Muses as not willingly to endure that the praise of his labours should be made immortal by means of verse. They say that the great Themistocles, the greatest man that Athens produced, said, when some one asked him what sound or whose voice he took the greatest delight in hearing, “The voice of that by whom his own exploits were best celebrated.” Therefore, the great Marius was also exceedingly attached to Lucius Plotius, because he thought that the achievement which he had performed could be celebrated by his genius.

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Pro Archia Poeta

1. est om. e, post enim hab. ςbg

2. praeconium facile k, Angelius: facile praeconium cett. ( cf. Zielinski p. 204)

3. quod qualia carmina quod Ee

4. ACROAMA ς: ἀκρόαμα b mg.: om. p in lac.

5. item om. ςbg ς

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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

Themistoclem : the great Athenian statesman and general, who won the battle of Salamis in the second Persian invasion ( B.C. 480) and afterwards, by his skillful policy, raised Athens to its greatest height of power.

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