M. Tullius Cicero Pro Q. Ligario 34

ed. Albert Curtis Clark

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. fuisset futurus β
2. noverit Hansing: non noverit codd.

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

eum dictatorem , i.e. Sulla, who, as dictator, had had full judicial powers. 229.27

praemus . . . invitabat : see note, Rosc. Am., sect. 6 ( p. 4, l. 6 ). 229.28

aliquot annis post , some years later. Sulla had provided by law for the impunity of those who executed his proscriptions; but Caesar, as judex quaestionis de sicariis , B.C. 64, took pains to secure the trial and conviction of more than one of these bloodhounds. 230.3

generis ac familiae , subjective gen.;

virtutis , objective gen.