M. Tullius Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 47

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[47] 18 videte, iudices, quantae res his testimoniis sint confectae. primum certe liberatur Milo non eo consilio profectus¹ esse ut insidiaretur in via Clodio: quippe, si ille obvius ei futurus omnino non erat. deinde—non enim video cur non meum quoque agam negotium—scitis, iudices, fuisse qui in hac rogatione suadenda diceret² Milonis manu caedem esse factam, consilio vero maioris alicuius. me videlicet latronem ac³ sicarium abiecti homines et⁴ perditi describebant. iacent⁵ suis testibus qui⁶ Clodium negant eo die Romam, nisi de Cyro audisset, fuisse rediturum. respiravi, liberatus sum⁷; non vereor ne, quod ne suspicari quidem potuerim, videar id cogitasse.

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. profectum E2

2. diceret ΣH, Ascon. et Schol.: -erent cett.

3. ac et Ascon.

4. et ac ΣBH: om. codd. SM Asconii

5. iaceant Σ

6. qui Garatoni: hi (ii Σ) qui ΣHET δ: iis qui k, Richter: fort. hi=#h## ( omissionis nota, cf. Phil. i. 11, vii. 6)

7. lib. sum, respiravi Quint. ix. 2. 26

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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

M. Papirium : this was one of Clodius's earliest exploits. Papirius, a friend of Pompey, was killed in a brawl about a son of Tigranes, held as hostage at Rome, whom Clodius was trying to rescue and send back for a great ransom to Asia, having by a trick got him out of the hands of his custodian.

non fuit , etc.: an illustration of the idea expressed in impune, 1.16, above. 178.21

quae , te. the Appian Way. 178.25

templo Castoris , where the Senate was then holding session. The circumstance took place in the year of Clodius's tribunate ( B.C. 58), while Pompey was in the Senate. "he instantly went home and stayed there."

M. Tullius Cicero Pro T. Annio Milone 47

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