M. Tullius Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 31

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[31] quod si ita putasset, certe optabilius Miloni fuit dare iugulum P. Clodio, non semel ab illo neque tum primum petitum, quam iugulari a vobis, quia se non iugulandum illi tradidisset. sin hoc nemo vestrum ita sentit, illud iam in iudicium venit, non¹ occisusne sit, quod fatemur, sed iure an iniuria, quod multis in causis saepe² quaesitum est. insidias factas esse constat, et id est quod senatus contra rem publicam factum iudicavit; ab utro factae sint incertum est. de hoc igitur latum est³ ut quaereretur. ita et senatus rem, non hominem notavit et Pompeius de iure, non de facto quaestionem tulit. 12 num quid igitur aliud in iudicium venit nisi uter utri insidias fecerit? profecto nihil: si hic illi, ut ne sit impune; si ille huic, tum nos⁴ scelere solvamur.

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. non hoc loco hab. ET δ, ante illud P

2. iam saepe T

3. de hoc ... est om. T

4. tum nos ET δ: ut P

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

sequitur illud , the next point is this: § 597 , d, i (344, d, I); Cf. H.-B. 625. 175.16

contra rem publicam factam : a technical phrase, amounting to "unlawful (unconstitutional) violence"; cf. our "a breach of the peace."

illam , i.e. caedem . 175.17

sententiis , .e. its expressed vote;

studiis , i.e. the interest it displayed in Milo's behalf? 175.19

nec tacitis , loudly;

nec occultis , in plain terms . 176.1

declarant : to preserve the emphasis we may change the voice, — it is shown by, etc.

hujus ambusti tribuni : the body of Clodius, left in the highway, had been picked up and sent to Rome, where its wounds were exposed to public gaze till, in the fury of the time, it was dragged to the Senate-house. Here a funeral-pile was made of desks, benches, and other furniture, and in the conflagration the Senate-house itself, with several other buildings, was destroyed. The tribune T. Munatius Plancus, who incited the mob to burn the body, is called ambustus, fire-scorched, because his influence suffered in the reaction of public feeling which followed the unintended conflagration; hence, too, his harangues ( contiones) are referred to as still-born ( intermortuae). 176.2

potentiam , unlawful domination . 176.6

officiosos , serviceable, in the way of forensic advocacy. 176.8

sane , if you like; or for aught I care.

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