M. Papirium: this was one of Clodius's earliest exploits. Papirius, a friend of Pompey, was killed in a brawl about a son of Tigranes, held as hostage at Rome, whom Clodius was trying to rescue and send back for a great ransom to Asia, having by a trick got him out of the hands of his custodian. non fuit, etc.: an illustration of the idea expressed in impune, 1.16, above. quae, te. the Appian Way. templo Castoris, where the Senate was then holding session. The circumstance took place in the year of Clodius's tribunate (B.C. 58), while Pompey was in the Senate. "he instantly went home and stayed there."
This text is part of:
Select Orations of. Cicero. Allen and Greenough's Edition. Revised by J. B. Greenough and G. L. Kittredge, with a special vocabulary by J. B. Greenough.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.