M. Tullius Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 11

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[11] silent enim leges inter arma nec se exspectari iubent¹, cum ei qui exspectare velit ante iniusta poena luenda sit quam iusta repetenda. etsi persapienter et quodam modo tacite dat ipsa lex potestatem defendendi, quae non² hominem occidi, sed esse cum telo hominis occidendi causa vetat, ut, cum causa, non telum quaereretur, qui sui defendendi causa telo esset usus, non hominis occidendi causa habuisse telum iudicaretur. quapropter hoc maneat in causa, iudices; non enim dubito³ quin probaturus sim vobis defensionem meam, si id memineritis quod oblivisci non potestis insidiatorem interfici iure⁴ posse.

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. iubent volunt ΣBHb2 ( contra Quintil. v. 14. 8)

2. non BH: non modo ET δ

3. dubito iudico T

4. interfici iure ΣBH: iure interfici T δ

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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

sflent : notice the emphatic position. 175.4

velit : subjunctive because of sit.

ante . . . quam : § 434 (262); G. 574, R.1; H. (p.293, footnote 1); cf. 14.-B. 507, 4, footnote 1 175.5

etsi , i.e. there is no need for me to appeal to the law of nature to establish the right to kill in self-defence, for this right is established by the judicial interpretation of a particular statute (of Sulla). This statute ( de sicariis) dealt with murder in general and went so far as to provide a penalty for the carrying of a weapon with intent to kill. The courts had ruled, says Cicero, that, under this law, a man who carried a weapon for self-defence was not carrying it hominis occidendi causa, in the meaning of the statute. 175.10

judicaretur : the subject is antecedent of qui. 175.11

hoc maneat in causa , let this point stand as the law of the case.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro T. Annio Milone 11

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