M. Tullius Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 14

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[14] non enim est ulla¹ defensio contra vim umquam optanda, sed non numquam est necessaria,—nisi vero aut ille dies quo² Ti. Gracchus est caesus, aut ille quo Gaius, aut arma³ Saturnini non, etiam si e⁴ re publica oppressa sunt, rem publicam tamen volnerarunt. 6 itaque ego ipse decrevi, cum caedem in via⁵ Appia factam esse constaret, non eum qui se defendisset contra rem publicam fecisse, sed, cum inesset⁶ in re vis et insidiae, crimen iudicio reservavi, rem notavi. quod si per furiosum illum tr. tribunum pl. plebis⁷ senatui quod sentiebat perficere licuisset, novam quaestionem nullam haberemus. decernebat enim ut veteribus legibus, tantum modo extra ordinem, quaereretur. divisa sententia est postulante nescio quo—nihil enim necesse est omnium me flagitia proferre —sic reliqua auctoritas senatus empta intercessione sublata est.

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. ulla ΣBHb2: illa ETab1

2. dies quo ΣH: dies in quo cett.

3. arma ΣH: quo arma cett. non etiamsi ... tamen Madvig: non etiamsi ... tamen non codd.: etiamsi ... tamen non ed. V

4. e est Σ: om. H

5. via ΣH: om. cett.

6. inesset H δ: esset T: inessent BE

7. pl H, Ascon.: om. cett. ( B)

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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

quamquam , and yet (corrective).

tribunatu : in the year B.C. 57 Milo, as tribune, had materially assisted in procuring the recall of Cicero from banishment. It was partly gratitude for this service that led Cicero to undertake Milo's defence. 173.3

abutemur , take unfair advantage of Cicero declines to use Milo's services to the state as an argument in his favor, and boldly declares that he will put the case on the bare facts, contending that Milo acted in self-defence. But in the very act of declining to dwell on these services he subtly emphasizes them,

M. Tullius Cicero Pro T. Annio Milone 14

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