M. Tullius Cicero Pro T. Annio Milone 6

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. rebusque BHE: rebus T δ
2. esse HE: om. BT δ
3. quia ΣH: si ETab1
4. sin ΣHE: sed si TW δ
5. nobis (vo- T) saltem (-im ΣH) ΣHT: saltem nobis E δ
6. vitam hoc loco hab. ΣHE, post telisque T 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

quamquam , and yet (corrective).

tribunatu : in the year B.C. 57 Milo, as tribune, had materially assisted in procuring the recall of Cicero from banishment. It was partly gratitude for this service that led Cicero to undertake Milo's defence. 173.3

abutemur , take unfair advantage of Cicero declines to use Milo's services to the state as an argument in his favor, and boldly declares that he will put the case on the bare facts, contending that Milo acted in self-defence. But in the very act of declining to dwell on these services he subtly emphasizes them,