M. Tullius Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 77

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[77] quam ob rem si cruentum gladium tenens clamaret T. Annius: adeste, quaeso, atque audite, cives! P. Clodium interfeci, eius furores, quos nullis iam legibus, nullis iudiciis frenare poteramus, hoc ferro et hac dextera a cervicibus vestris reppuli, per me ut unum ius aequitas, leges libertas, pudor pudicitia maneret¹ in civitate², esset vero timendum quonam modo id ferret civitas! nunc enim quis est qui non probet, qui non laudet, qui non unum post hominum memoriam T. Annium plurimum rei publicae profuisse, maxima laetitia populum Romanum, cunctam Italiam, nationes omnis adfecisse et³ dicat et sentiat? non queo vetera illa populi Romani gaudia quanta fuerint iudicare: multas tamen iam summorum imperatorum clarissimas victorias aetas nostra vidit, quarum nulla neque tam diuturnam laetitiam attulit⁴ nec tantam.

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. maneret BHETa: -erent b

2. in civitate ante leges hab. ΣBH. post leges E, ante maneret T δ; hoc loco posuit Zielinski ( numeri gratia)

3. affecisse et ΣH δ: affecisset E: affecisse T

4. laet. attulit ΣH: attulit laet. cett.

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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

T. Annius : the name in this form is more dignified than the cognomen Milo alone (which Cicero has hitherto used). He adopts it here in accordance with the more formal tone which he gives to his speech at this point. 201.27

per me unum :

ut is displaced by the emphasis thrown upon

me .

jus ,

aequitas ,

leges : as praetor Clodius would have had judicial as well as military power. 201.28

esset timendum (ironical), apodosis of si . . . clamaret (l.22). 202.2

gaudia , such as that for the victory over Hannibal or for the defeat of the Cimbri and Teutones. 202.3

victorias , such as those of Pompey in the East and Caesar in Gaul.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro T. Annio Milone 77

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