M. Tullius Cicero, Philippicae, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 75

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[75] 30 profectus est aliquando tandem¹ in Hispaniam; sed tuto, ut ait, pervenire non potuit. quonam modo igitur Dolabella pervenit? aut non suscipienda fuit ista causa, Antoni, aut, cum suscepisses, defendenda usque ad extremum. ter depugnavit Caesar cum civibus, in Thessalia, Africa, Hispania. omnibus adfuit his pugnis Dolabella; in² Hispaniensi etiam volnus accepit. si de meo iudicio quaeris, nollem; sed tamen consilium a primo reprehendendum, laudanda constantia. tu vero quid es? Cn. Pompei liberi tum³ primum patriam repetebant. esto, fuerit haec partium causa communis. repetebant praeterea deos patrios⁴, aras, focos, larem suum familiarem, in quae tu invaseras⁵. haec cum peterent⁶ armis ei⁷ quorum erant legibus—etsi in rebus iniquissimis quid potest esse aequi?—tamen quem erat aequissimum contra Cn. Pompei liberos pugnare⁸? quem? te sectorem.

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. tandem aliquando D

2. in ns: om. Vct

3. liberi tum V: liberam c: liberi nst

4. patrios Faernus: partios V: proprios t: penates patrios cns

5. in quencumque inv. V

6. peterent Vns: repeterent ct

7. ei t: ii V: hi ns: eius c

8. tamen erat aequissimum contra Cn. P. liberos Cn. P. pugnare (te add. c) sectorem 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

omnibus , i.e. to all, both living and dead. To the living the full reward is due only on the completion of the war; to the dead, however, it can be paid at once by being given to their heirs (see the end of the decree, sect. 36 ). 252.24

victoribus , i.e. at the end of the campaign. 252.25

quam . . . secuti sunt , i.e. relying on which (the pledge of the Senate), they followed the cause. 252.26

consili sui , their course (i.e. their espousal of the cause of good order). 252.27

quibus , i.e. the living, whose silent presence is a reminder. 252.29

senatus sapientis : the Senate, as composed of the wisest citizens, would best appreciate the importance of encouraging patriotism.

M. Tullius Cicero Philippicae 75

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