M. Tullius Cicero, Philippicae, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 64

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[64] 26 Caesar Alexandrea¹ se recepit, felix, ut sibi quidem videbatur, mea autem sententia, qui rei publicae sit infelix², felix esse nemo potest. hasta posita pro aede Iovis Statoris bona Cn. Pompei³—miserum me! consumptis enim lacrimis tamen infixus animo haeret⁴ dolor—bona, inquam, Cn. Pompei Magni⁵ voci acerbissimae⁶ subiecta praeconis. Vna in illa re servitutis oblita civitas ingemuit servientibusque animis, cum omnia metu tenerentur⁷, gemitus tamen populi Romani liber fuit. exspectantibus omnibus quisnam esset tam impius, tam demens, tam dis hominibusque hostis qui ad illud scelus sectionis auderet accedere, inventus est nemo praeter Antonium, praesertim cum tot essent circum hastam illam qui alia omnia auderent: unus inventus est qui id auderet quod omnium fugisset et reformidasset audacia.

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. Alexandriam D

2. infelix D: hostis V

3. Cn. Pompei Faernus: subiecta Cn. Pompei codd.

4. animo haeret D: haberet animo V: haeret animo Faernus: pectori haeret Quintil. ix. 2. 26

5. Magni om. Quintil.

6. acerbissimae voci Quintil.

7. cum ... tenerentur om. D

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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

With this section the formal eulogy begins. Sect , 25 is a transition from the argumentative part of the oration to the laudatory portion. 250.31

legione Martia : this was one of two legions that had gone over from Antony to the Senate the November previous. The other was the quarta, mentioned below ( p. 251, l. 11 ). 251.9

alterum , referring to the second alternative ( victoria se, etc.), according to the favorite Latin chiastic order. 10

M. Tullius Cicero Philippicae 64

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