M. Tullius Cicero Pro M. Marcello 27

ed. Albert Curtis Clark

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 patriae β
2. vixisse te vixisse H: vixisse in ras. hab. A est enim Schol. et Servius Aen. x. 467
3. omnino om. Schol. et Serv. hoc om. γ

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

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.