M. Tullius Cicero Pro Q. Ligario 3

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. post etiam AV βam: postea H: post h
2. et ad γ
3. tum α: om. βγ
4. ad privatum αγ: a privato DEL: in privato B: privato unus det.

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

qui erant in Africa , i.e. the Roman citizens there. 226.28

cupiditate inconsiderata , headlong partisanship. 226.29

salutis and

studi limit ducem .

studi , partisan zeal. 226.30

ducem , i.e. they wished to organize, at first to secure their own safety, and afterwards to aid the Pompeian party, and hence they desired a military leader.

cum : § 546 , a (325, b); B. 288, 2; G. 581; H. 600, i (52 I, i); H.-B. 566, a. 227.1

implicari , i.e. refused to commit himself to any such action. 227.2

praetor , i.e. as propraetor.

obtinuerat , had held, in some former year. Of course, therefore, he had no legitimate authority in Africa at the present time, for the imperium had to be conferred by a special and very definite act; hence the expression si illud, etc. (1.4).