M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 21

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[21] Mithridaticum vero bellum magnum atque difficile et in multa varietate terra marique¹ versatum totum ab hoc expressum est; qui libri non modo L. Lucullum, fortissimum et clarissimum virum, verum etiam populi Romani nomen inlustrant. populus enim Romanus aperuit Lucullo imperante Pontum et regiis quondam opibus et ipsa natura et² regione³ vallatum, populi Romani exercitus eodem duce non maxima manu innumerabilis Armeniorum copias fudit, populi Romani laus est urbem amicissimam Cyzicenorum eiusdem consilio ex omni impetu regio atque⁴ totius belli ore ac faucibus ereptam esse atque servatam; nostra semper feretur et praedicabitur L. Lucullo dimicante, cum interfectis ducibus depressa hostium classis est⁵, incredibilis apud Tenedum pugna illa navalis, nostra sunt tropaea, nostra monumenta, nostri triumphi. quae⁶ quorum ingeniis efferuntur⁷, ab eis populi Romani fama celebratur.

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.) — 21 focus

[21] And the whole Mithridatic war, great and difficult as it was, and carried on with so much diversity of fortune by land and sea, has been related at length by him; and the books in which that is sung of, not only make illustrious Lucius Lucullus, that most gallant and celebrated man, but they do honour also to the Roman people. For, while Lucullus was general, the Roman people opened Pontus, though it was defended both by the resources of the king and by the character of the country itself. Under the same general the army of the Roman people, with no very great numbers, routed the countless hosts of the Armenians. It is the glory of the Roman people that, by the wisdom of that same general, the city of the Cyzicenes, most friendly to us, was delivered and preserved from all the attacks of the kind, and from the very jaws as it were of the whole war. Ours is the glory which will be for ever celebrated, which is derived from the fleet of the enemy which was sunk after its admirals had been slain, and from the marvellous naval battle off Tenedos: those trophies belong to us, those monuments are ours, those triumphs are ours. Therefore, I say that the men by whose genius these exploits are celebrated, make illustrious at the same time the glory of the Roman people.

Notes on the current edition

Pro Archia Poeta

1. mari terraque G

2. natura et Mommsen: naturae (-ra eb χς) codd.

3. regionis b χς

4. atque GEeb: ac cett.: atque e Halm

5. est Heumann: et codd.

6. quae G1Ee: quia cett. ( G2)

7. efferuntur Görenz: haec (hec a ςbg) feruntur codd.: ecferuntur Stürenberg

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

For the statements in this section , see Pompey's Military Command

natura et regione : hendiadys.

ejusdem , i.e. Lucullus.

nostra , as ours (predicate), agreeing with

pugna . Cicero means that these exploits, since they have been immortalized by Archias, will always remain the glory of the Roman people.

quae , these things (just mentioned);

quorum limits

ingeniis and refers to

eis .

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