M. Tullius Cicero Pro Q. Ligario 1

ed. Albert Curtis Clark

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Pro Q. Ligario. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1918.

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Current edition Perseus

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

Notes on the current edition

Pro Q. Ligario

1. hanc Quintil. xi. 3. 108, 110
2. non auditum αBDL et Quintil.: in auditum E γ et Aquila Rom. Rhet. L. p. 24
3. scires βa: scire αhm
4. abuterer mallem uterer ( numeri gratia) sed vulg tuetur Quintil.
5. opinor α: ut opinor βγ

Commentary

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

propinquus , kinsman. It is not known what was the relationship of Tubero to Cicero.

Tubero : Q. Aelius Tubero, the prosecutor, was the son of L. Aelius Tubero, the Pompeian commander, and was lying sick on board his father's ship at the time when Ligarius prevented the landing in Africa (see Introd., p. 2?5 of text). Cicero throughout the speech conveys the impression that personal resentment was at the bottom of Q. Tubero's action in opposing the pardon of Ligarius. 226.3

Pansa : C. Vibius, cos. B.C. 43 (see Phil. xiv), at this time a leading supporter of Caesar. He was a petitioner for Ligarius. 226.5

quo me vertam , which way to turn . 226.10

necessarius : Cicero's necessitudo to Pansa appears to have consisted in their working together in behalf of Ligarius.

ut . . . esset (obj. of fecerit), that it is no longer a new case.