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  • M. Tulli Ciceronis pro Sex. Roscio Amerino Oratio
  • DE IMPERIO CN. POMPEI AD QVIRITES ORATIO
  • PRO A. CLVENTIO ORATIO
  • Orationes in Catilinam
  • PRO L. MVRENA ORATIO
  • PRO M. CAELIO ORATIO
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    M. Tullius Cicero, Orationes: Pro Sex. Roscio, De imperio Cn. Pompei, Pro Cluentio, In Catilinam, Pro Murena, Pro Caelio (ed. Albert Clark)

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    PRO M. CAELIO ORATIO

    I. si quis+, iudices+, forte+ nunc+ adsit+ ignarus+ legum+ iudiciorum+ consuetudinisque+1 nostrae+, miretur+ profecto+ quae+ sit tanta+ atrocitas+ huiusce+ causae+, quod+2 diebus+ festis+ ludisque+ publicis+, omnibus+ forensibus+ negotiis+ intermissis+, unum+ hoc iudicium+ exerceatur+, nec dubitet+ quin+ tanti+ facinoris+ reus+ arguatur+3 ut eo neglecto+ civitas+ stare+ non possit+. idem cum audiat esse legem quae de seditiosis consceleratisque civibus qui armati senatum obsederint, magistratibus4 vim attulerint, rem publicam oppugnarint cotidie quaeri iubeat: legem non improbet, crimen quod versetur in iudicio requirat; cum audiat nullum facinus, nullam audaciam, nullam vim in iudicium vocari, sed adulescentem5 inlustri ingenio, industria, gratia accusari ab eius filio quem ipse in iudicium et vocet et vocarit, oppugnari autem opibus meretriciis: Atratini ipsius6 pietatem non reprehendat, libidinem muliebrem7 comprimendam putet, vos laboriosos existimet quibus otiosis ne in communi quidem otio liceat esse. [2] etenim si attendere diligenter atque8 existimare vere de omni hac causa volueritis, sic constituetis, iudices, nec descensurum quemquam ad hanc accusationem fuisse cui utrum vellet liceret nec, cum descendisset, quicquam habiturum spei fuisse, nisi alicuius intolerabili libidine et nimis acerbo odio niteretur. sed ego Atratino, humanissimo atque optimo adulescenti, meo necessario, ignosco, qui habet excusationem vel pietatis vel necessitatis vel aetatis. si voluit accusare, pietati tribuo, si iussus est, necessitati, si speravit aliquid, pueritiae. ceteris non modo nihil9 ignoscendum sed etiam acriter est resistendum.

    1 consuetudinisque sB: consuetudinis cett.

    2 quod] quia sB

    3 arguatur] accusatus sB

    4 magistratibus sBpd: om. P

    5 adulescentem nobilem sB

    6 Atratini ipsius scripsi: Atratini illius BPpd: illius Muretus

    7 libidinem muliebrem sB: muliebrem Jibidinem cett.

    8 atque s: om. Ppd: et Angelius

    9 nihil om. s

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    M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark Collegii Reginae Socius. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1908. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
    OCLC: 26994431


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