M. Tullius Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 78

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[78] mandate hoc memoriae, iudices. spero multa vos liberosque vestros in re publica bona¹ esse visuros: in eis² singulis ita semper existimabitis, vivo P. Clodio nihil eorum³ vos visuros fuisse. in spem maximam et, quem ad modum confido, verissimam sumus adducti, hunc ipsum annum, hoc⁴ summo viro consule, compressa hominum licentia, cupiditatibus confractis⁵, legibus et iudiciis constitutis, salutarem civitati fore. num quis igitur est⁶ tam demens qui hoc P. Clodio vivo contingere potuisse arbitretur⁷? quid? ea quae tenetis privata atque vestra dominante homine furioso quod ius perpetuae possessionis⁸ habere potuissent?

29 non timeo, iudices, ne odio mearum⁹ inimicitiarum inflammatus libentius haec in illum evomere videar quam verius. etenim si¹⁰ praecipuum¹¹ esse debebat, tamen ita communis erat omnium ille hostis ut in communi odio paene aequaliter versaretur odium meum. non potest dici satis, ne cogitari quidem, quantum in illo sceleris, quantum exiti fuerit.

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. bona Hb: multa bona TWa: vestra bona E

2. eis Garatoni: his codd.

3. eorum ET: horum ΣHb2 (nihil eorum ... P Clodio vivo om. ab1)

4. hoc ΣH: hoc ipso cett.

5. confractis H: fractis cett. ( Σ)

6. igitur est ΣH: est igitur ET

7. arbitretur Naugerius (1): -traretur codd.

8. possessionis b, edd. VR: possessiones HETa

9. inimic. mearum T

10. si etsi H

11. praecipue meus Richter

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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

hora undecima : this would be about half past four P.M. In reality, as we learn from other sources, it was nearly two hours earlier; and Milo had stopped at an inn in Bovillae, in order (as was charged) to make sure of not missing his enemy. 183.1

adversi . . . occidunt , they attack and kilt 183.8

pugnari , impersonal. 183.9

succurrere : § 558 , b (331, C, 2); cf. B. 295, 31 N.; G. 549, N.1; H. 505, ii, 2; H.-B. 587. 183.10

fecerunt . . . quod quisque . . . voluisset : this sentence is greatly admired as a delicate way of glossing over awkward facts. 183.11

derivandi , i.e. from Milo, the master, to the irresponsible slaves. 183.14

voluisset : for constr., see § 521 , a (310, a) ; B. 305, I ; G. 600, I; H. 595, 9 (507, N.7); H.-B. 578, 6.

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