M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Q. Ligario, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 19

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[19] mihi vero, Caesar¹, tua in me maxima merita tanta certe non viderentur, si me ut sceleratum a te conservatum putarem. quo modo autem tu de re publica bene meritus esses², cum tot sceleratos incolumi dignitate esse voluisses? secessionem tu illam existimavisti, Caesar, initio, non bellum, nec hostile odium, sed civile discidium, utrisque³ cupientibus rem publicam salvam⁴, sed partim consiliis, partim studiis a communi utilitate aberrantibus. principum dignitas erat paene par, non par fortasse eorum qui sequebantur; causa tum dubia, quod erat aliquid in utraque parte quod probari posset; nunc melior⁵ ea iudicanda est quam etiam di adiuverunt. cognita vero clementia tua quis non eam victoriam probet in qua occiderit nemo nisi armatus?

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. Caesar β: om. αγ

2. esses si γ

3. neque β

4. salvam esse γ

5. melior certe γ

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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

esses , i.e. in the case supposed. 232.8

secessionem : Pompey and most of the Senate had retired at Caesar's approach to the city, and escaped to Greece. 232.8

utrisque cupientibus , where both wished. 232.11

eorum qui sequebantur : almost the entire body of the Roman nobility followed Pompey.

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