M. Tullius Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 99

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[99] 36 haec tu mecum saepe his absentibus, sed isdem audientibus haec ego tecum, Milo: te quidem, cum isto animo sis¹, satis laudare non possum, sed, quo est ista² magis divina virtus, eo maiore a te dolore divellor. nec vero, si mihi eriperis³, reliqua est illa saltem⁴ ad consolandum querela⁵ ut eis⁶ irasci possim a quibus tantum volnus accepero. non enim inimici mei te mihi eripient, sed amicissimi, non male aliquando de me meriti, sed semper optime. nullum mihi umquam, iudices⁷, tantum dolorem inuretis—tametsi⁸ quis potest esse tantus?—sed ne hunc quidem ipsum ut obliviscar quanti me semper feceritis. quae si vos cepit⁹ oblivio¹⁰ aut si in me aliquid offendistis, cur non id in¹¹ meo capite potius luitur quam Milonis? praeclare enim vixero, si quid mihi acciderit prius quam hoc tantum mali videro.

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. sis H: es ET δ

2. ista ΣH: illa cett.

3. eripieris b2

4. saltem ΣHw: tamen ET δ

5. querella H

6. eis his E

7. umq. iud. mihi T δ

8. tametsi H: etsi ET δ

9. ceperit Σ

10. oblivio mei H: fort. quod si ... obl. mei ( contra Arusian. K. vii. 497)

11. id in H: om. in ET 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

nihil , etc.: of course ironical. 186.28

quid? ego , etc.: Cicero gives his own experience as an example of Clodius's violent way of acting. 186.31

diem , etc.: example of legal proceedings which Cicero says, ironically, he avoided by fleeing from the city: the first phrase (diem dixerat) refers to a notice of an accusation before the public assembly; the second ( multam inrogarat), to a bill for a fine; the third ( actionem perduellionis), to an action on a capital charge before the comitia centuriata. 187.2

servorum , etc.: the facts, as opposed to the ironical statement that precedes. Cicero had really to fear, not judicial proceedings instituted by Clodius, but mob violence instigated by him.

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