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  • ORATIO CVM SENATVI GRATIAS EGIT
  • ORATIO CVM POPVLO GRATIAS EGIT
  • DE DOMO SVA AD PONTIFICES ORATIO
  • ORATIO DE HARVSPICVM RESPONSO IN P. CLODIVM IN SENATV HABITA
  • PRO P. SESTIO ORATIO
  • IN P. VATINIVM TESTEM INTERROGATIO
  • DE PROVINCIIS CONSVLARIBVS IN SENATV ORATIO
  • PRO L. CORNELIO BALBO ORATIO
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    M. Tullius Cicero, Orationes: Cum Senatui gratias egit, Cum populo gratias egit, De domo sua, De haruspicum responso, Pro Sestio, In Vatinium, De provinciis consularibus, Pro Balbo (ed. Albert Clark)

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    PRO L. CORNELIO BALBO ORATIO

    I. si auctoritates patronorum in iudiciis valent, ab amplissimis viris L. Corneli causa defensa est; si usus, a peritissimis; si ingenia, ab eloquentissimis; si studia, ab amicissimis et cum beneficiis cum L. Cornelio tum maxima familiaritate coniunctis. quae sunt igitur meae partes? auctoritatis tantae quantam vos in me esse voluistis, usus mediocris, ingeni minime voluntati paris. nam ceteris a quibus est defensus hunc debere plurimum video; ego quantum ei debeam, alio loco; principio orationis hoc pono, me omnibus qui amici fuerint saluti et dignitati meae, si minus referenda gratia satis facere potuerim, praedicanda et habenda certe satis esse facturum. [2] quae fuerit hesterno die Cn. Pompei gravitas in dicendo, iudices, quae facultas, quae copia, non opinione tacita vestrorum animorum, sed perspicua admiratione declarari videbatur. nihil enim umquam audivi quod mihi de iure subtilius dici videretur, nihil memoria maiore de exemplis, nihil peritius de foederibus, nihil inlustriore auctoritate de bellis, nihil de re publica gravius, nihil de ipso modestius, nihil de causa et crimine ornatius: [3] ut mihi iam verum videatur illud esse quod non nulli litteris ac studiis doctrinae dediti quasi quiddam incredibile dicere putabantur, ei qui omnis animo virtutes penitus comprehendisset omnia quae faceret . quae enim in L. Crasso potuit, homine nato ad dicendi singularem quandam facultatem, si hanc causam ageret, maior esse ubertas, varietas, copia quam fuit in eo qui tantum potuit impertire huic studio temporis quantum ipse a pueritia usque ad hanc aetatem a continuis bellis et victoriis conquievit? [4] quo mihi difficilior est hic extremus perorandi locus. etenim ei succedo orationi quae non praetervecta sit auris vestras, sed in animis omnium penitus insederit, ut plus voluptatis ex recordatione illius orationis quam non modo ex mea, sed ex cuiusquam oratione capere possitis.

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    M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark. Albert Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1909. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
    OCLC: 26994431


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