M. Tullius Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 10

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[10] insidiatori vero et latroni quae potest inferri iniusta nex? quid comitatus nostri, quid gladii volunt? quos habere certe non liceret, si uti illis nullo pacto liceret. est igitur haec, iudices, non scripta, sed nata lex, quam non didicimus, accepimus, legimus, verum ex¹ natura ipsa adripuimus, hausimus², expressimus, ad quam non docti sed facti, non instituti sed imbuti sumus, ut, si vita nostra in aliquas insidias, si in vim et in tela aut latronum aut inimicorum incidisset, omnis honesta ratio esset expediendae salutis.

Pro T. Annio Milone. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1918.

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Pro T. Annio Milone (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Vol. 6. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1918.)

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Pro T. Annio Milone

1. verum etiam ex T

2. hausimus om. T

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Commentary on Defense of Milo (Select Orations of Cicero (Allen and Greenough's Edition). Greenough, James Bradstreet; Kittredge, George Lyman, editors. Boston, London: Ginn & Company, 1897.) focus

vero : introducing, as usual, a strong case. 174.19

comitatus , body-guards, which would seem to have been a common thing among these gentlemen of Rome, as among the partisan chieftains of the Middle Ages. 174.20

volunt , mean. 174.20

adripuimus , caught;

hausimus , imbibed; expressimus, wrought out;

imbuti , steeped. 175.1

ut . . . esset , purpose clause after lex (a word of decreeing). 175.2

incidisset : in the words of the lex, - incident .

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