M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Q. Ligario, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 30

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[30] causas, Caesar, egi multas equidem¹ tecum, dum te in foro tenuit ratio honorum tuorum, certe numquam hoc modo: ignoscite, iudices; erravit, lapsus est, non putavit; si umquam posthac. ad parentem sic agi solet, ad iudices: non fecit, non cogitavit; falsi testes, fictum crimen. dic te, Caesar, de facto Ligari iudicem esse; quibus in praesidiis fuerit quaere²: taceo, ne haec quidem conligo, quae fortasse valerent etiam apud iudicem: legatus ante bellum profectus, relictus in pace, bello oppressus, in eo ipso non acerbus³, totus animo⁴ et studio⁵ tuus. ad iudicem sic⁶, sed ego apud⁷ parentem loquor: erravi, temere feci⁸, paenitet; ad clementiam tuam confugio, delicti veniam peto, ut ignoscatur⁹ oro. si nemo impetravit, adroganter: si plurimi, tu idem fer opem qui spem dedisti.

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. equidem Aah: et quidem HVD βm

2. quaere βh: quaerere αam

3. acerbus fuit γ

4. totus animo αa: tametsi totus hm: tametsi totus animo β: iam est totus animo Madvig

5. ac studio β

6. sic αh: sic agi solet βa

7. apud β: ad αγ

8. erravit... fecit γ

9. ignoscas 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

tecum , in company with you. Caesar was hardly less distinguished as an orator than as a general and statesman.

dum . . . tenuit : for tense, see § 556 and a (276, e and N.); B. 293, i; G. 569, N.1; H. 533, 4 (467, 4, N.); H.-B. 550, b-ratio honorum tuorum , the course of ambition (lit. the consideration of your [series. of] offices). The regular course of a Roman's ambition led him through the cursus honorum, i.e. from the quaestorship to the consulship. One of the chief means of advancing his political interests in this career was to act as advocate ( patronus) in the Forum.

in foro : the Forum was the seat of the administration of justice. 235.22

posthac , Sc. fecerit 235.24

dic and

quaere in effect form a protasis of which taceo is the apodosis,- if you say, etc., I am silent: § 521 , b (310, b); B. 305, 2; G. 593, 4; H. 573, i (507, I); H.-B. 497, 2. 235.25

quibus in praesidus , in which army .

ne haec quidem , i.e. the following. 235.26

valerent , might prevail (if I used them). 235.27

bello oppressus , overtaken by the war. 235.28

in eo ipso , i.e. in his conduct in the war to which he was forced. 235.30

temere , thoughtlessly. 235.31

ignoscatur , impersonal.

impetravit , Sc. veniam. 235.32

adroganter , Sc. oro .

idem . . . qui , as you have, etc. (lit. the same one who have ).

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