Pro M. Marcello. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1918.
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Pro M. Marcello. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1918.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Funding provided by National Endowment For The Humanities (NEH).
Pro M. Marcello (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Vol. 6. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1918.)
Pro M. Marcello
illae quidem : the pronoun (as often in concessive sentences) is inserted only to carry quidem, adding nothing to the sense; § 298 , a (195, c) ; H.-B. 274, 3. 216.22
nescio quo modo : here (as often) with a slight tone of regret; Cf. our colloquial "somehow or other." 216.23
tubarum , of trumpets: the tuba was a long, straight horn, used in infantry; the lituus a curved one, used in cavalry.