M. Tullius Cicero Pro Q. Ligario 32

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. proponere.
2. Nosti AH, ed. R (cf. Phil. xiii. 30): proponere, nosti vulg. optime αγ: optimos β

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

tu , not expressed for emphasis but merely to carry the concessive quidem. 236.17

Sabinos : Ligarius was of Sabine origin, and many of his Sabine friends were present on this occasion. 236.18

fiorem , etc.: the Sabine territory among the mountains was still the home of a hardy and virtuous population. 236.19

nosti : during the First Civil War, Caesar had found shelter from Sulla among these kindly mountaineers. 236.21

squalorem : it was the custom of the Romans to express their sympathy for one in danger by going into mourning, that is, by wearing ragged and mean apparel. When Cicero was threatened with exile some 20,000 of his friends are said to have appeared in this guise.