J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, Select Orations of Cicero, Allen and Greenough's Edition.

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 those already proscribed when the law was passed. Future cases of proscription would have been referred to by the subj. or fut. perf. (see Verr. ii, chs. xli, xlii).

in . . . praesidiis, among the armed forces, etc.

dum, so long as: § 556, ? (276, e, N.) ; G. 569; H. 603, i (519, i) ; H.-B. 550 and b.

veteres, those of the regular code; novas, those of the Sullan revolution.

occisum esse, indir. disc. with constat ; the subject accusative is omitted.