Die Reden des Marcus Tullius Cicero, Band 4
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- Englisch
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- APACicero. (n.d.). The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 [Die Reden des Marcus Tullius Cicero, Band 4]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/cicero/the-orations-of-marcus-tullius-cicero-volume-4
- MLACicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 [Die Reden des Marcus Tullius Cicero, Band 4]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/de/works/cicero/the-orations-of-marcus-tullius-cicero-volume-4.
- ChicagoCicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 [Die Reden des Marcus Tullius Cicero, Band 4]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/de/works/cicero/the-orations-of-marcus-tullius-cicero-volume-4.
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Kontext und Geschichte
Eines ändert die Art, sie zu lesen: Diese Texte sind nicht, was vor Gericht gesagt wurde. Cicero veröffentlichte seine Reden hinterher, überarbeitet und geglättet, mitunter stark verändert. Der berühmte Fall ist die Pro Milone: Die überlieferte Rede ist nicht die gehaltene — an jenem Tag wurde er niedergeschrien und Milo verurteilt —, sondern die Fassung, die er später schrieb, so wie er sie gern gehalten hätte. Sie sind Literatur ebenso wie Gerichtsdokument. Die Bandeinteilung stammt vom Verleger.
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power for the future, was taken away from us; and a great pledge appeared to have been given by him to the republic that he did wish the city to be free, when he utterly abolished out of the republic the name of dictator, which had often been a legitimate title, on account of our late recollection of a perpetual dictatorship. A few days afterwards the senate was delivered from the danger of bloodshed, and a hook[5] was fixed into that runaway slave who had usurped the name of Caius Marius. And all these things he did in concert with his colleague. Some other things that were done were the acts of Dolabella alone; but, if his colleague had not been absent, would, I believe, have been done by both of them in concert. For when enormous evil was insinuating itself into the republic, and was gaining more strength day by day; and when the same men were erecting a tomb[6] in the forum, who had performed that irregular funeral; and when abandoned men, with slaves like themselves, were every day threatening with more and more vehemence all the houses and temples of the city; so severe was the rigour of Dolabella, not only towards the audacious and wicked slaves, but also towards the profligate and unprincipled freemen, and so prompt was his overthrow of that accursed pillar, that it seems marvellous to me that the subsequent time has been so different from that one day. For behold, on the first of June, on which day they had given notice that we were all to attend the senate, everything was changed. Nothing was done by the senate, but many and important measures were transacted by the agency of the people, though that people was both absent and disapproving. The consuls elect said, that they did not dare to come into the senate.…