M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Q. Ligario, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 16

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[16] quod si probare Caesari possemus in Africa Ligarium omnino non fuisse, si honesto et misericordi mendacio saluti civi calamitoso esse vellemus, tamen hominis non esset in tanto discrimine et periculo civis refellere et coarguere¹ nostrum mendacium, et, si esset alicuius, eius certe non esset qui in eadem causa et fortuna fuisset. sed tamen aliud est errare Caesarem nolle, aliud est nolle² misereri. tum diceres³: Caesar, cave credas: fuit in Africa⁴, tulit arma contra te. nunc quid dicis? cave ignoscas. haec nec hominis nec ad hominem vox est. qua qui apud te, C. Caesar, utetur⁵, suam citius abiciet humanitatem quam extorquebit tuam.

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. redarguere β

2. est nolle αβ: nolle a: non hm

3. tunc β

4. Afr. Ligarius γ

5. utetur αBDa: utitur Ehm

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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

alicujus , for any one. 231.7

diceres : the prot. is implied in

tunc (i.e. "if you were guarding Caesar against being deceived"); § 521 , a (310, a); B. 305, I G. 594, 3; 11.575, 9 (507, N.7); H-B. 578,6.

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