M. Tullius Cicero Philippicae 65

ed. Albert Curtis Clark

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

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Current edition Perseus

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

Notes on the current edition

Philippicae

1. exsecrandum D
2. non post deos om. cns, ed. R
3. et esse D: esse V
4. viri om. D

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

beneficia , i.e. grants of money and assignments of land to Julius Caesar's veterans.

servassent , hod saved, i.e. had not, like some others, wasted their property and become reprobates (cf. Cat. 2, sect. 20 ). 251.15

viginti cohortibus , i.e. two legions. 251.18

tribus : in point of fact, Antony had only two legions engaged; but full particulars had not yet reached Rome, and Cicero appears to have thought that a third legion, the Alauda, which he had with him, took part in the fight. 251.19

huic , etc., dep. on imminentis (1.21).