Pro M. Marcello. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1918.
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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.
accedat
γ
2.
credimus
α: -amus
βγ
3.
dilapsa
Ha
γ: delapsa
AV
β
4.
difflux.
Bm: deflux.
αELa: fluxerunt
h
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
immanitate barbaras , i.e. barbarous and fierce: his first conquests had subdued the Gauls, Germans, and Britons. 216.10
locis infinitas : Caesar moved from Gaul, B.C. 49, into Italy, and the same year to Spain. In 48 he crossed over to Greece, and thence to Egypt; in 47 he carried on war in Asia Minor, and in 46 gained the crowning victory of Thapsus in Africa. 216.13
animum vincere , to rule his spirit; cf. Proverbs xvi, 32: "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." 216.14
victoriam temperare , to control the passions of victory (cf. sect. 9 , p. 216, l. 27 ). 216.15
nobilitate . . . praestantem : this description is inserted to enhance the credit of Caesar's act, inasmuch as the greater the adversary the more dangerous his restoration would seem. 216.17
haec qui facit : a slight break in the construction (anacoluthon); the proper predicate of the preceding infins. would be connected with them by est; the proper object of facit would be a result clause with ut. The effect of the Latin can be exactly reproduced in translation.