M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 9

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[9] an¹ domicilium Romae non habuit is qui tot annis ante² civitatem datam sedem omnium rerum ac fortunarum suarum Romae conlocavit? an³ non est professus? immo vero eis⁴ tabulis professus quae solae ex illa professione conlegioque praetorum obtinent publicarum tabularum auctoritatem. 5 nam, cum Appi tabulae neglegentius adservatae dicerentur, Gabini⁵, quam diu incolumis fuit, levitas, post damnationem calamitas omnem tabularum fidem resignasset, Metellus, homo sanctissimus modestissimusque omnium, tanta diligentia fuit ut ad L. Lentulum praetorem et ad iudices venerit et unius nominis litura se commotum esse dixerit. his igitur in⁶ tabulis nullam lituram in nomine⁷ A. Licini videtis.

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.) — 9 focus

[9] “But he had no residence at Rome.” What, not he who for so many years before the freedom of the city was given to him, had established the abode of all his property and fortunes at Rome? “But he did not return himself.” Indeed he did, and in that return which alone obtains with the college of praetors the authority of a public document. 5
For as the returns of Appius were said to have been kept carelessly, and as the trifling conduct of Gabinius, before he was convicted, and his misfortune after his condemnation, had taken away all credit from the public registers, Metellus, the most scrupulous and moderate of all men, was so careful, that he came to Lucius Lentulus, the praetor, and to the judges, and said that he was greatly vexed at an erasure which appeared in one name. In these documents, therefore, you will see no erasure affecting the name of Aulus Licinius.

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Pro Archia Poeta

1. an GEe: at (ad a) cett.

2. ante χ: om. cett. civitatem datam GEea: civitate data (-am p1) cett.

3. an G1Eepk: at cett.

4. iis Manutius: his codd.

5. Gabini GEe: Gabii cett.

6. in suppl. Eberhard

7. nomine e ςbg χ2: nomen 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

tunc , at that time. This was the long period of comparative quiet between the Gracchan disturbances ( B.C. 133-121) and the tribunate of Drusus ( B.C. 91), which was followed by the Social War and the civil wars of Marius and Sulla.

Latio : not the geographical Latium merely, but all towns which at that time possessed Latin citizenship; that is, the Latin colonies, such as Venusia, the birthplace of the poet Horace.

de ingeniis , i.e. could form some opinion about the talents of literary men.

absentibus , people at a distance.

Mario et Catulo (coss. B.C. 102); of these, Marius was renowned for his exploits, while Catulus was a good officer, and also a man of culture.

nactus est , etc., he happened to find holding the consulship.

eos, quorum alter , men of such a kind that one of them, etc. This would not only furnish him with themes for his poetry but insure appreciation of his genius.

Luculli : Lucius, the one who fought against Mithridates, and his brother Marcus; both of them belonged to the highest ranks of the aristocracy, and were men of distinguished taste and culture.

ingeni , pred. gen. after an understood erat: this was [a proof] not only of his genius, etc.

ut . . . esset , result clause in app. with

hoc (l.29).

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