[29]
sed per deos immortalis!—te enim intuens, Dolabella,
qui es mihi carissimus1, non possum de utriusque vestrum
errore2 reticere. credo enim vos nobilis homines magna
quaedam spectantis non pecuniam, ut quidam nimis creduli
suspicantur, quae semper ab amplissimo quoque clarissimoque
contempta est, non opes violentas et populo Romano
minime ferendam potentiam, sed caritatem civium et gloriam
concupivisse. est autem3 gloria laus4 recte factorum magnorumque
in rem publicam fama5 meritorum, quae cum optimi
cuiusque, tum etiam multitudinis testimonio comprobatur.
dicerem,
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
Click on a word to bring up parses, dictionary entries, and frequency statistics
M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit breviqve adnotatione critica instrvxit Albertus Curtis Clark Collegii Reginae Socius. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1918. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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.