M. Tullius Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 34

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[34] Audistis, iudices, quantum Clodi interfuerit¹ occidi Milonem: convertite animos nunc vicissim ad Milonem. quid Milonis intererat interfici Clodium? quid erat cur Milo non dicam admitteret, sed optaret? obstabat in spe consulatus Miloni Clodius. at eo repugnante fiebat, immo vero eo fiebat magis, nec me suffragatore meliore utebatur quam Clodio. valebat apud vos, iudices, Milonis erga me remque publicam meritorum memoria, valebant preces et lacrimae nostrae, quibus ego tum vos mirifice moveri sentiebam, sed plus multo valebat periculorum impendentium timor. quis enim erat civium qui sibi solutam P. Clodi praeturam sine maximo rerum novarum metu proponeret? solutam autem² fore videbatis, nisi esset is consul qui eam auderet possetque constringere. Eum Milonem unum esse cum sentiret universus populus Romanus, quis dubitaret suffragio suo se metu, periculo rem publicam liberare? at nunc, Clodio³ remoto, usitatis iam rebus enitendum est Miloni ut tueatur dignitatem suam; singularis illa et⁴ huic uni concessa gloria quae cotidie augebatur frangendis furoribus Clodianis iam Clodi morte cecidit. vos adepti estis ne quem civem metueretis; hic exercitationem virtutis, suffragationem consulatus, fontem perennem gloriae suae perdidit. itaque Milonis consulatus qui vivo Clodio labefactari non poterat mortuo denique temptari coeptus est. non modo igitur nihil prodest sed obest etiam Clodi mors Miloni.

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. Audistis, iudices, quantum Clodi inter fuerit Peyron: fuerit P (fuerit ... sibi solutam om. cett.)

2. autem PE: om. T δ

3. P. Clodio T δ

4. et P : om. ET 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

audistis , etc.: the words in italics are supplied by conjecture. 185.22

non dicam : parenthetical.

obstabat : the supposed remark of an opponent. 185.23

repugnante eo , in spite of his opposition.

fiebat ( se consul ), was coming to be (see note onfieri, sect. 25 , p. iii, 1.22). 185.24

nec me , etc., i.e. the positive support of Cicero was not more useful to Milo's canvass than the antagonism of so bad a man as Clodius. 185.25

apud vos , i.e. you and such men as you in your capacity as electors. 186.1

quis dubitaret? who could [then] hesitate? § 444 (268); B. 277; G; 259; H. 557 (486, ii); H-B. 517, I. 186.3

Clodio remoto , i.e. s9 long as Clodius was alive many would vote for Milo as being his declared enemy, but now that Clodius k out of the way, Milo must rely only on the ordinary means ( usitatis jam rebus) of securing suffrages. 186.7

ne . . . metueretis : § 537 , a, N. (319, a, N.); G. 553, I; cf. H.-B. 502, 3, a, footnote1.

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