M. Tullius Cicero Pro T. Annio Milone 74

ed. Albert Curtis Clark

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. lex nulla T
2. P. H: C. ( vel T.) P teste Zuretti: c. p ETWa: Cn. Pompeium b
3. Varium PETW: Varum H: narrum a: virum b
4. terminarat P: -abat HET δ
5. forti, M. fortissimo H
6. Prilio P: Prelio Ha: Perelio ET
7. materiem P ΣH: -iam BET δ
8. harenam ΣBHb2: arma cett. ( P)
9. exstruere aed. P

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

non calumnia litium , etc.: referring to fraudulent and malicious proceedings under cover of law, which were too mild and dilatory a method of plunder for Clodius. A powerful noble, with his slaves and clients, had almost an army at his disposal, so that the disorders of the time actually amounted to private warfare, like that of the feudal nobles. The following incidents illustrate this further. 200.18

sacramentis : a form of procedure in which a forfeit ( sacramentum) was deposited by each party, to abide the result of the suit. 200.20

Etruscos : see note, sect. 26 ( p. 182, l. 1 ). 200.24

Janiculo et Alpibus : these boundaries would include all Italy north of the Tiber. 200.26

splendido : the regular complimentary epithet of an eques .