M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 22

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[22] carus fuit Africano superiori noster Ennius, itaque etiam in sepulcro Scipionum putatur is esse constitutus ex marmore. at eis¹ laudibus certe non solum ipse qui laudatur² sed etiam populi Romani nomen ornatur. in caelum huius proavus Cato tollitur; magnus honos populi Romani rebus adiungitur. omnes denique illi maximi, Marcelli, Fulvii non sine communi omnium nostrum laude decorantur. 10 ergo illum qui haec fecerat, Rudinum³ hominem, maiores nostri in civitatem receperunt; nos hunc Heracliensem multis⁴ civitatibus expetitum, in hac autem legibus constitutum de nostra civitate eiciamus⁵?

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.) — 22 focus

[22] Our countryman, Ennius, was dear to the elder Africanus; and even on the tomb of the Scipios his effigy is believed to be visible, carved in the marble. But undoubtedly it is not only the men who are themselves praised who are done honour to by those praises, but the name of the Roman people also is adorned by them. Cato, the ancestor of this Cato, is extolled to the skies. Great honour is paid to the exploits of the Roman people. Lastly, all those great men, the Maximi, the Marcelli, and the Fulvii, are done honour to, not without all of us having also a share in the panegyric. 10
Therefore our ancestors received the man who was the cause of all this, a man of Rudiae, into their city as a citizen; and shall we reject from our city a man of Heraclea, a man sought by many cities, and made a citizen of ours by these very laws?

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Pro Archia Poeta

1. ex marmore. At iis Fascitellus: et marmoratis codd.: ex marmore; cuius Mommsen

2. ipse ... laudatur GEeab2: ipsi ... laudantur (-atur p) cett.

3. Rudinum Schol., A. Augustinus: rudem tum (tu Ee: tamen ςgp ς) codd.

4. a multis Lambinus

5. eiciamus G: eiecimus e: eiciemus 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

multis and

praeditis are dat. after

impertiebant ;

arte , abl. after

praeditis .

Graecia , i.e. Magna Graecia, the Greek cities of Italy.

credo (ironical), I suppose .

Locrensis : Locri Epizephyrii, a Greek city near Rhegium.

quod relates to

id , which is governed by

largiri understood.

ingeni limits

gloria , which depends on

praedito .

civitatem datam , i.e. by the Lex Plautia-Papiria.

legem Papiam : see Introd. to the oration.

illis , sc. tabulis, i.e. of Tarentum, Rhegium, and Naples.

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