M. Tullius Cicero Pro M. Marcello 15

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. cum partis meae per. γ
2. iam erit β
3. existim. rerum β
4. mirum fort. tum αBDL: fort. mirum tum E: mirum videretur fort. tum γ (videtur h)
5. se maluisse 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

integra re , before anything had been done (i.e. before peace was broken). 218.24

cum capitis mei periculo : it is said that after Pompey's defeat the command was urged upon Cicero by Cato; and on his refusal to conduct the war, Sextus Pompey would have stabbed him unless Cato had interfered. 218.27

statim censuerit : Cicero was welcomed and kindly treated by Caesar on his return to Italy, B.C. 47. The war was not finished till the next year, hence incertus exitus, etc. 218.29

victor , when victorious (opposed to incertus, etc.).