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M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus (ed. L. C. Purser), LIBER SECVNDVS,
Scr. Romae m. Dec. a. 697 (57) .
MARCVS QVINTO FRATRI SALVTEM
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Scr. Romae m. Dec. a. 697 (57).
MARCVS QVINTO FRATRI SALVTEM
epistulam quam legisti mane dederam sed fecit i humaniter Licinius quod ad me misso senatu vesperi venit,
ut si quid esset actum ad te, si mihi videretur, perscriberem. senatus fuit frequentior quam putabamus esse posse mense Decembri sub dies festos. consulares nos fuimus et duo consules designati, P. Servilius, M. Lucullus, Lepidus, Volcacius, Glabrio, praetores sane frequentes fuimus,
omnino ad Cc. commorat exspectationem Lupus ; egit causam agri Campani sane accurate. auditus est magno silentio. materiam rei non ignoras. nihil ex nostris actionibus praetermisit. fuerunt non nulli aculei in Caesarem, contumeliae in Gellium, expostulationes cum
absente Pompeio. causa sero perorata sententias se rogaturum negavit, ne quod onus simultatis nobis imponeret; ex superiorum temporum conviciis et ex praesenti silentio quid senatus sentiret se intellegere dixit Milo. coepit dimittere. tum Marcellinus 'noli,' inqui
Thou land of Egypt, doomed to bear a part
In civil warfare, not unreasoning sang
High Cumae's prophetess, when she forbad This warning of the Sibyl is also alluded to by Cicero in a letter to P. Lentulus, Proconsul of Cilicia. (Mr. Haskins's note. See also Mommsen, vol. iv., p. 305.) It seems to have been discovered in the Sibylline books at the time when it was desired to prevent Pompeius from interfering in the affairs of Egypt, in B.C. 57.
The stream Pelusian to the Roman arms,
And all the banks which in the summer-tide
Are covered by his flood. What grievous curse
Shall I call down upon thee? May the Nile
Turn back his water to his source, thy fields
Want for the winter rain, and all the land
Crumble to desert wastes! We in our fanes
Have known thine Isis and thy hideous gods,
Half hounds, half human, and the drum that bids
To sorrow, and Osiris, whom thy dirge That is, by their weeping for his departure they treated him as a mortal and not as a god. Osiris was the soul of Apis
J. B. Greenough, Benjamin L. D'Ooge, M. Grant Daniell, Commentary on Caesar's Gallic War, The Campaigns in Gaul. (search)
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero , Allen and Greenough's Edition., Life of Cicero. (search)
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough's Edition., section 6 (search)
quamquam, and yet (corrective).
tribunatu: in the year B.C. 57 Milo, as tribune, had materially assisted in procuring the recall of Cicero from banishment. It was partly gratitude for this service that led Cicero to undertake Milo's defence.
abutemur, take unfair advantage of Cicero declines to use Milo's services to the state as an argument in his favor, and boldly declares that he will put the case on the bare facts, contending that Milo acted in self-defence. But in the very act of declining to dwell on these services he subtly emphasizes them,
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough's Edition., section 38 (search)
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough's Edition., section 68 (search)
sed quis, but [this cannot be, for] who, etc.
si locus, etc., i.e. if Milo had had a chance, he would have proved his devotion to Pompey.
illa taeterrima peste, i.e. Clodius.
tribunatum: Milo was tribune B.C. 57, and he was active in securing the recall of Cicero from exile.
quae si non, etc., if he could not prove this.
armis . . . conquietura, were never likely to rest front arms.
ne, assuredly.
ita natus, born for that very thing (i.e. to sacrifice everything for his country).
te antestaretur, would call you to witness (that he yields to the occasion and is really guiltless of any hostilities).
J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough's Edition., section 87 (search)
quae . . . pateretur: § 535, e (320, e); B. 283, 2; G. 633; 11.592 (517); H.-B. 523.
consensu, modifying gesta: the acts referred to are those of Cicero's consulship, which Clodius had practically annulled (resciderat) by procuring his banishment.
domum incenderat: this was in B.C. 57.
capere, contain.
incidebantur: he felt so sure of his power that he was having the laws engraved (on bronze tablets, according to the custom) even before their passage.
nos . . . addicerent, which should bind us over to our own slaves (i.e. freedmen). The suffrage of the freedmen was a standing subject of controversy in Roman politics. They voted in the four city tribes (see note on sect. 25, p. 181, l. 26), but many efforts were made to get them into the rustic tribes; and Clodus had promised, as praetor, to bring forward a law with this object.
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
P. SULLA, DOMUS
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P. SULLA, DOMUS
on the Palatine. It was seized by Clodius in the outbreak of
57 B.C. (Cic. ad Att. iv. 3. 3).
Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero, Cicero's Public Life and Contemporary Politics. (search)