Philippicae. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1918.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Funding provided by National Endowment For The Humanities (NEH).
Philippicae. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1918.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Funding provided by National Endowment For The Humanities (NEH).
Philippicae (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Vol. 6. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1918.)
Philippicae
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).