Les discours de Marcus Tullius Cicéron, volume 4
- Langue:
- anglais
- État:
- Œuvre complète
- Paternité:
- Écrite par l'auteur
- État du texte:
- Aucun bruit de numérisation détecté (mesure automatique sur tout le texte, non vérifiée à la main)
- Étendue:
- ~220 000 mots · 1 058 passages
Citer cette œuvre
- APACicéron. (n.d.). The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 [Les discours de Marcus Tullius Cicéron, volume 4]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/cicero/the-orations-of-marcus-tullius-cicero-volume-4
- MLACicéron. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 [Les discours de Marcus Tullius Cicéron, volume 4]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/cicero/the-orations-of-marcus-tullius-cicero-volume-4.
- ChicagoCicéron. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 [Les discours de Marcus Tullius Cicéron, volume 4]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/cicero/the-orations-of-marcus-tullius-cicero-volume-4.
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De quoi il s'agit
Un volume des discours de Cicéron en traduction anglaise : accusations, défenses et interventions devant le sénat ou le peuple.
Contexte et histoire
Une chose change la manière de les lire : ces textes ne sont pas ce qui fut dit au tribunal. Cicéron publiait ses discours après coup, revus et polis, parfois très modifiés. Le cas fameux est le Pro Milone : le discours qui nous est parvenu n'est pas celui qu'il prononça — ce jour-là on le couvrit de huées et Milon fut condamné — mais la version qu'il rédigea ensuite, telle qu'il aurait aimé la dire. Ce sont des textes littéraires autant que des pièces judiciaires. Le partage en volumes appartient à l'éditeur.
Contexte éditorial, non une source citable : contrairement aux passages de l'œuvre, ces données ne peuvent pas être vérifiées dans le corpus.
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.…