M. Tullius Cicero, Philippicae, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 47

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[47] quod si partium certamen esset, quarum omnino nomen exstinctum est, Antoniusne potius et Ventidius partis Caesaris defenderent quam primum Caesar, adulescens summa pietate et memoria parentis sui, deinde Pansa et Hirtius, qui quasi cornua duo tenuerunt Caesaris tum cum illae vere partes vocabantur? hae vero quae sunt partes, cum alteris senatus auctoritas, populi Romani libertas, rei publicae salus proposita sit, alteris caedes bonorum, urbis¹ Italiaeque partitio? 21 veniamus aliquando ad clausulam. legatos venire non credo. bene me novit, reliqui veniant², proposito praesertim exemplo Dolabellae. sanctiore³ erunt⁴, credo, iure legati quam duo consules contra quos arma fert, quam Caesar cuius patris flamen est, quam consul designatus quem oppugnat, quam Mutina quam obsidet, quam patria cui igni ferroque minitatur.

Philippicae. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1918.

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Philippicae (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Vol. 6. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1918.)

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Philippicae

1. urbis om. t

2. reliqui veniant scripsi: bellum quod veniant h: bellum quid veniat v ( cf. ad § 2): velim quo venias b: quod venias t

3. sanctiore b1h1: sanctiores cett.

4. bene... erunt om. s

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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

P. Ventidium , an officer of Antony's army. He afterwards gained some important successes over the Parthians, B.C. 38.

†volusenum : the manuscripts here are hopelessly corrupt. 249.16

discessionem , "division" (as in the English House of Commons); see general Introd., p. lvii.

voluissent : the presiding consuls could put a question to vote in the Senate—or not—at their discretion, since they alone were regarded as having the initiative in deliberations (see general Introd., p. lvii). 249.19

licuit , i.e. by the consuls (see last note). 249.21

verbis notari : spurious, and to be disregarded in translation.

M. Tullius Cicero Philippicae 47

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