M. Tullius Cicero Pro T. Annio Milone 59

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. qui H
2. severius de servis nulla lege ( om. lege T δ) quaestio est in dominum nisi incesti ( ita ΣHb2: de incestu ET: de interitu ab1) ut fuit in Coldium add. codd., del. Heumann
3. in deos E
4. accessit Clod. T δ
5. dominum HE: dominum de servo T δ
6. quia non H δ: quin non ET: quin Halm possit Σ
7. indignum ΣH: indignum esse cett.
8. dominis ΣH ( i. e. mori mallent domini): domini TE δ

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

quaestiones , examination (by torture) of Clodius's slaves.

urgent , i.e. is a difficult point for the defence to meet. 194.26

in atrio Libertatis : it was in this hall (probably near the present column of Trajan) that questions touching the liberation of slaves were considered, and that torture was inflicted, — not in mockery of the name, but to excite in the slave some hope of freedom. 194.27

Appius : an elder brother of Clodius. 194.29

de servis : the passage in brackets seems necessary to the sense. The exception de incestu is mentioned to bring the jest upon Clodius. 194.30

proxime , very near: i.e. by having his murder treated as sacrilege (i.e. an offence against the gods) in respect to the question of slaves. The whole passage is an argument a fortiori. If the Romans excluded enforced testimony of a master's slaves, even when the truth could be arrived at thereby, how much more should this be excluded here, where the temptation to lie was so great that no trustworthy evidence could be expected from them.

deos accessit is punningly used in two senses, — first, of his near approach to being a god (by having an offence against him treated as sacrilege); second, of his unlawful intrusion on the mysteries of the Bona Dea. 194.31

ad ipsos , i.e. in the mysteries of Bona Dea ( p. 176, l. 14 , note). 195.3

non quin , not but: § 540 , N.3 (321, R.); B. 286,1, b; G. 541, N.2; H. 588, ii, 2 (516, 2); H-B. 535, 2, b.