M. Tullius Cicero Pro M. Marcello 1

ed. Albert Curtis Clark

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Pro M. Marcello. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1918.

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Current edition Perseus

Pro M. Marcello (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Vol. 6. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1918.)

Notes on the current edition

Pro M. Marcello

1. invisitatam Eberhard
2. nullo modo praet. β

Commentary

Commentary on The Pardon of Marcellus (Select Orations of Cicero (Allen and Greenough's Edition). Greenough, James Bradstreet; Kittredge, George Lyman, editors. Boston, London: Ginn & Company, 1897.) focus

diuturni silenti : it was now more than six years since the defence of Milo, which was followed almost immediately by Cicero's absence as proconsul in Cilicia, whence he returned only on the eve of the Pharsalian campaign.

eram . . . usus , had kept 214.3

verecundia , modesty, i.e. distrust of himself under the circumstances. 214.4

vellem : not subj. of indir. question, but informal indir. disc.; § 592 , 2 (341, c); B. 323; G. 662; 11.649, ii (528, I); H.-B. 535, I, a. 214.5

tantam mansuetudinem , etc.: no doubt these words express the genuine and grateful surprise felt at Caesar's clemency, so different from the conduct of former conquerors in civil wars (as Sulla, for example). 214.6

rerum omnium , in every respect .