M. Tullius Cicero Philippicae 93

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. est in V: in D
2. Opis patebat D
3. quae nos post redd. hab. D
4. ubi est ... desisti post § 96 acta defendimus transposuit Nägelsbach
5. sunt ea ... defendimus (§ 96) om. D: ante sunt ea hab. V ( e § 97) quid ego de commentaris Caesaris infinitos quiden numerabilibus cyrigraphis Caesaris loquar ( sic)
6. a tuis Faernus: ad ius V: a diversis Poggius

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

senatum. . . judicare , indir. disc. depending on censeo (l. 7); in the decree it would be senatus . . . judicat 255.25

uti . . . constituat : in the decree this would depend on some word of commanding (like decernit) in the heading; hence it stands unchanged in Cicero's indirect statement. 255.26

alter ambove : the imperium of the two consuls was absolutely equal, and the power of neither was impaired by the special assignment of any duty to the other. Any such special assignment of functions was only made by mutual consent, and either had a legal right to interfere in the other's province. Of course, however, any such interference was regarded as unwarranted, and in practice the two colleagues either took turns in the administration or agreed upon a division of functions between them. 255.28

pulvinaria : see note on Cat. 3, sect. 23 ( p. 137, l. 14 ). A supplicatio was one of the few religious rites of the Romans in which the whole people took part. The proper temples were opened and the gods symbolically served with a feast The citizens repaired to these temples and paid their individual devotions to the gods in peculiar forms of humiliation not ordinarily observed in the public sacrifices.