M. Tullius Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 38

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[38] quid simile¹ Milonis? cuius vis omnis haec semper fuit, ne P. Clodius, cum in iudicium detrahi non posset, vi oppressam civitatem teneret. quem si interficere voluisset, quantae² quotiens occasiones, quam praeclarae fuerunt! potuitne, cum domum ac deos penatis suos illo oppugnante defenderet, iure se ulcisci, potuitne civi egregio et viro fortissimo, P. Sestio, conlega suo, volnerato, potuitne Q. Fabricio, viro optimo, cum de reditu meo legem ferret, pulso, crudelissima in foro caede facta, potuitne L. Caecili, iustissimi fortissimique praetoris, oppugnata domo, potuitne illo die quo³ est lata lex de me, cum totius Italiae concursus, quem mea salus concitarat, facti illius gloriam libens agnovisset⁴, ut, etiam si id Milo fecisset, cuncta civitas eam laudem pro sua vindicaret?

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. simile esse simile (?) Σ: similẽ E: simile est Baiter

2. quotiens et quantae Schol.

3. quo ΣH: cum cett.

4. agnovisset H δ: adcognovisset E: om. T

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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

quid , etc., what like deed of Milo's? 187.16

detrahi non posset , on account of the disturbances and lawlessness of the time. 187.19

potuitne = nonne potuit: § 332 , c (210, d); B. 162, 2, c; G.454 R2; H-B 231,1, b, N.1.

deos penatis : see note, Cat. 4, sect. 18 ( p. 151, l. 5 ).

fllo oppugnante : this was an attack not by a mob but by an armed band, made upon Milo's house, November 12, B.C. 57, the year of Cicero's return. 187.22

Fabricio : Q. Fabricius, tribune B.C. 57; be was the originator and defender of the bill for Cicero's return from exile; an attack was made upon him by the partisans of Clodius, and he barely escaped with his life. 187.23

Caecili , praetor B.C. 57. He was attacked while presiding over the games of Apollo in July. 187.25

lata lex , i.e. the law proposed for his recall. 187.26

facti , i.e. the killing of Clodius.

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