M. Tullius Cicero Philippicae 90

ed. Albert Curtis Clark

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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. ille dies, M. Antoni D
2. et D: sed V
3. M. Antoni filium post nobilem add. D
4. te bonum D
5. tyranni illius sceleratissimi praef. 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

sententia , i.e. a formal proposition for a decree (analogous to "a motion reduced to writing " in a modern deliberative assembly). In the Roman Senate questions were proposed only by a magistrate; and this was done not in the form of a set motion, as with us, but the whole question was presented ( de re referre) for discussion. The result of the deliberation might be several formal propositions for a decree, all, any, or none of which might be formally put to vote by the presiding officer. If one of these was carried, it would stand as the senatus consultum. (Cf. Introd., p. lvii, above).

complectar , i.e. my views on the whole question. 255.5

cum , whereas. 255.15

occidione occident : notice the set phrase, not used in ordinary language. Translate, cut to pieces with great slaughter.