M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Q. Ligario, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 15

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[15] si in tanta¹ tua fortuna lenitas² tanta non esset, quam tu per te, per te³, inquam, obtines—intellego quid loquar—, acerbissimo luctu redundaret ista victoria. quam multi enim essent de victoribus qui te crudelem esse vellent, cum etiam de victis reperiantur! quam multi qui⁴ cum a te ignosci nemini vellent, impedirent clementiam tuam, cum⁵ hi quibus ipsis⁶ ignovisti nolint te esse in alios misericordem!

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. in hac tanta βa

2. tua fortuna lenitas fortuna bonitas Quintil. viii. 3. 85

3. per te, per te γ: per te αβ ( variant codd. Quintil.)

4. qui om. β

5. cum etiam β

6. ipsis AV: ipse cett.

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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

per te , i.e. as contrasted with the bloodthirstiness of some of his followers. 230.26

essent : the prot. is si . . . esset, above. 230.27

reperiantur : the seq. of tenses is violated to avoid ambiguity; § 485 , i (287, h, N.); B. 268, 7; G. 509, I, N.; II. 543 (491); cf. H.-B. 478; 50 nolint in 1.29.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro Q. Ligario 15

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