M. Tullius Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 76

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[76] 28 quamquam haec quidem iam tolerabilia videbantur, etsi aequabiliter in rem publicam, in privatos, in longinquos, in propinquos, in alienos, in suos inruebat, sed nescio quo modo usu iam¹ obduruerat et percalluerat civitatis incredibilis patientia: quae vero aderant iam et impendebant, quonam modo ea aut depellere potuissetis aut ferre? imperium ille si nactus esset, omitto socios, exteras² nationes, reges, tetrarchas; vota enim faceretis ut in eos se potius immitteret³ quam in vestras possessiones, vestra tecta, vestras pecunias⁴: pecunias dico? a liberis, me dius fidius, et a coniugibus vestris numquam ille effrenatas suas libidines cohibuisset. fingi haec putatis⁵ quae patent, quae⁶ nota sunt omnibus, quae tenentur, servorum exercitus illum in urbe conscripturum fuisse, per quos totam rem publicam resque privatas omnium possideret?

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. iam hoc loco hab. H, ante usu T δ, om. ΣE

2. externas Σ

3. inmitteret ΣHE: mitteret TW δ

4. vestras pecunias, vestra tecta TW pecunias bis hab. ΣHb2: semel ET δ

5. putatis haec ΣBH

6. patentur haec quae H

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

quoad , etc.: the Senate adjourned on this day about the fourth hour (between ten and eleven A.M.). 182.21

calceos : the Senator wore a special kind of shoe adorned with a crescent-shaped ornament ( lunula); his tunic was also distinguished by the broad purple stripe in front ( latus clavus). When travelling, a Roman put off his toga and badges of office and put on a heavy travelling cloak ( paenula) and other easy garments. 182.22

id temporis : § 397 , a (240, b); B. 185, 2; G. 336, N.2; H. 416, 2 (378, 2); H.-B. 388, b. 182.24

ob viam fit : this was just beyond Bovillie (Albano), a village about nine miles from Rome. 182.25

raeda ( rheda), a four-wheeled family carriage. 182.26

Graecis comitibus , singers, dancers, etc. (see sect. 55 ). 182.27

hic insidiator , i.e. Milo (of course ironical). 182.28

apparasset , i.e. as the accusers say: see § 592 , 3 (341, d); B. 323; G. 628; H. 649, i (528, I); H.-B. 535, I, a. 182.29

paenulatus : the paenula went on over the head, like a Mexican poncho, and so confined the arms (Fig. 47). It was the usual travelling cloak of a Roman. 182.30

comitatu : this troop of singing boys and maidens was, no doubt, to take part in the village procession next day at Lanuvium.

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