M. Tullius Cicero Philippicae 15

Philippicae. M. Tullius Cicero. London. 1903.

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Current edition Perseus

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

Editions (1)
Philippicae Perseus (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Vol. 6. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1918.) — 15 focus

Notes on the current edition

Orations

1. These two were tribunes of the people, who had been dispossessed of their offices by Julius Caesar.

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

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.

vos : here he addresses the Martian Legion. 253.16

idem deus : Mars was not only the special patron god of Rome, but, being the father of Romulus, was regarded as the ancestor of the Roman race (hence urbem genuisse). 13