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J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition., Roman Oratory. (search)
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough's Edition., section 37 (search)
venierunt, from veneo not venio.
si enim haec, for if such remarks, etc.. i.e. if I may be allowed to speak freely.
tantus homo, such a great-person: a hint that more important men than he had suffered. In fact, all the really eminent victims of the Civil War had perished before the proscription.
qui (adv.), how?
Valeria: the law by which Sulla was made perpetual dictator and invested with absolute power of life and death (B.C. 82); it was proposed by L. Valerius Flaccus as interrex. Laws were designated by the gentile name of their proposer ; all laws, for example, carried by L. Cornelius Sulla were known as Leges Corneliae.
Cornelia: this appears to have been enacted some time after the lex Valeria, in order to regulate the details of the proscription. Cicero's ignorance of the law is no doubt affected.
novi, I know the thing or person ; scio, I know the fact: I am not acquainted with the law, and do not know which it is.
proscripti sunt: the indic. must mean tho
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition., chapter 4 (search)
etenim,introducing the reason of nullam sibi rem, etc., above.
adulescentiae,i.e. before he entered public life.
quaestura,quaestorship, the first grade of political honor.
Carbonem:Carbo was the leader of the Marian faction after the death of Marius and Cinna. He was consul B.C. 82, the year of Sulla's return and victory. Verres was his quaestor (or paymaster), and went over to the enemy with the money-chest when he saw which side was likely to prevail.
necessitudinem religionemque:the quaestor was originally nominated specially by the consul; and the peculiarly close and sacred relation (necessitudo) existing between them was known as pietas,—a sentiment akin to filial affection. The designation by lot (sors) was also held to be a token of divine will, and therefore sacred (religio). In betraying his consul, then, Verres was guilty of more than an ordinary breach of trust,—he committed an act of impiety.
legatio:Verres was in B.C. 80-79 legatus and acting quaestor (pro
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough's Edition., section 61 (search)
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition., chapter 4 (search)