M. Tullius Cicero Pro T. Annio Milone 23

ed. Albert Curtis Clark

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

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Current edition Perseus

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

Notes on the current edition

Pro T. Annio Milone

1. ei lecti Garatoni: electi codd.: et electi iud. del. Ioergensen
2. est Orelli: om. codd.
3. aliud iudices E
4. perspicere possitis argum. E

Commentary

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

duodecim tabulae : the "Twelve Tables" were the code which formed the basis of Roman law, drawn up B.C. 451 by an elected board of ten commissioners ( decemviri). This codification of the laws continued in force, and was the starting point of the legal education of every Roman, and of all later development of Roman law.

quoquo modo , under any circumstances . 174.8

quoquo modo , in whatever way .

quis (indefinite), one; the preceding quis is interrogative. 174.13

vi vis . . . defenditur , violence offered is repelled by force. - pudicitiam . . . eriperet, tried to rob of his honor. 174.14

tribunus : C. Lusius, son of Marius's sister. This was a stock instance among rhetoricians in arguing the just limits of self-defence. 174.17

scelere solutum , acquitted of guilt .