M. Tullius Cicero Philippicae 11

Philippicae. M. Tullius Cicero. London. 1903.

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Philippics (English) (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Vol. 4. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1856.)

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Commentary

Commentary on The Fourteenth Philippic (Select Orations of Cicero (Allen and Greenough's Edition). Greenough, James Bradstreet; Kittredge, George Lyman, editors. Boston, London: Ginn & Company, 1897.) focus

decerno , I propose: note that this word often does not mean decree, but is used of a single Senator, — vote or propose .

quinquaginta , an unprecedented number. A ten days' supplicatio had been decreed for Pompey's victories in Africa, and fifteen for Caesar's defeat of the Belgians. 252.16

est , it is due to.

fidei . . . declarare : § 343 , c (214, d); B. 198, 3; G. 366, R.2; H. 447 (403); cf. H.-B. 340. 252.18

bello confecto : § 420 (255, d); B. 237, 2; G. 410; H. 489, I (43 I, I); H.-B. 421, 3; notice (he reference to future time. 252.21

conjungi , Sc. cum honore imperatorum.

omnibus , i.e. to all, both living and dead. To the living the full reward is due only on the completion of the war; to the dead, however, it can be paid at once by being given to their heirs (see the end of the decree, sect. 36 ). 252.24

victoribus , i.e. at the end of the campaign. 252.25

quam . . . secuti sunt , i.e. relying on which (the pledge of the Senate), they followed the cause. 252.26

consili sui , their course (i.e. their espousal of the cause of good order). 252.27

quibus , i.e. the living, whose silent presence is a reminder. 252.29

senatus sapientis : the Senate, as composed of the wisest citizens, would best appreciate the importance of encouraging patriotism.

occurrunt , suggest themselves . 253.6

placet . . . mihi , my proposition is (an almost technical use of the phrase: see Vocab.). 253.9

se abrupit : Cf. sect. 26 . 253.10

Albam , sc. Fucensem: a town among the mountains, in the territory of the Marsi, which the Martian Legion took and held after revolting from Antony. 253.12

desiderat , has lost 253.13

in ipsa victoria , at the moment of victory.