M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Q. Ligario, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 10

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[10] 4 ad me revertar. isdem in armis fui. quid autem aliud egimus, Tubero, nisi ut quod hic potest nos possemus? quorum igitur impunitas, Caesar, tuae clementiae laus est, eorum ipsorum ad crudelitatem te¹ acuet² oratio? atque in hac causa non nihil equidem, Tubero, etiam tuam, sed multo magis patris tui prudentiam desidero, quod homo cum ingenio tum etiam doctrina excellens genus hoc causae quod esset non viderit. nam si vidisset, quovis profecto quam isto modo a te agi maluisset. arguis fatentem. non est satis: accusas eum qui causam habet aut, ut ego dico, meliorem quam tu aut, ut tu vis, parem.

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

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

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Pro Q. Ligario

1. te ante ipsorum hab. Quintil. viii. 5. 10 et Diomedes K. i. 471

2. acuit β, Diomedes ( contra Quintil.)

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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

qui cuperet , being one who wished . 227.12

in provincia pacatissima : Africa was one of the earliest and most thoroughly conquered of the provinces.

ita se gessit , etc.: in contrast to others who welcomed a state of war to escape or hide the Consequences of their acts of violence or oppression. 227.13

pacem esse , subject of expediret.

profectio , his going there.

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