M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 6

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[6] erat temporibus illis iucundus Q. Metello illi Numidico et eius Pio¹ filio, audiebatur a M. Aemilio, vivebat cum Q. Catulo et patre et filio, a L. Crasso colebatur, Lucullos vero et Drusum et Octavios et Catonem et totam Hortensiorum domum devinctam consuetudine cum teneret, adficiebatur summo honore, quod eum non solum colebant qui aliquid percipere atque audire studebant verum etiam si qui forte simulabant. 4 interim satis longo² intervallo, cum esset cum M. Lucullo³ in Siciliam profectus et cum⁴ ex ea provincia cum eodem Lucullo decederet, venit Heracleam. quae cum esset civitas aequissimo iure ac foedere, ascribi se in eam civitatem voluit idque, cum ipse per se dignus putaretur, tum auctoritate et gratia Luculli ab Heracliensibus impetravit.

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.) — 6 focus

[6] He at that time gained the affection of Quintus Metellus, that great man who was the conqueror of Numidia, and his son Pius. He was eagerly listened to by Marcus Aemilius; he associated with Quintus Catulus,—both with the father and the sons. He was highly respected by Lucius Crassus; and as for the Luculli, and Drusus, and the Octavii, and Cato, and the whole family of the Hortensii, he was on terms of the greatest possible intimacy with all of them, and was held by them in the greatest honour. For, not only did every one cultivate his acquaintance who wished to learn or to hear anything, but even every one pretended to have such a desire. 4
In the meantime, after a sufficiently long interval, having gone with Lucius Lucullus into Sicily, and having afterwards departed from that province in the company of the same Lucullus, he came to Heraclea. And as that city was one which enjoyed all the rights of a confederate city to their full extent, he became desirous of being enrolled as a citizen of it. And, being thought deserving of such a favour for his own sake, when aided by the influence and authority of Lucullus, he easily obtained it from the Heracleans.

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Pro Archia Poeta

1. Pio eius Lambinus ( contra Schol.)

2. longo satis ςg

3. M. Schütz: L. codd.

4. et cum et Lag. 9

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

cum : causal, but best translated when.

esset : for tense, see § 589 , b, I (337, b, I); B. 268, 4; G. 597, R.4; H. 647(527, iii); H.-B. 581, b, N.

asciscendum fuisse : in the direct, asciscendus erat; § 517 , d (308,d); B. 304,3, b; G. 597,R.3,a; H. 582(511,2); H-B. 581,a; cf. note on Pompey's Military Command, sect. 50 ( p. 88, l. 32 ), erat deligendus.

urbe : § 282 ,d(184,c); G. 411, R.3; H. 393,7(363,4 2); H-B. 452, a. .

contigit , sc. ei, i.e. Archias.

post , afterwards.

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