Le orazioni di Marco Tullio Cicerone, volume 4
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~220.000 parole · 1058 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APACicerone. (n.d.). The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 [Le orazioni di Marco Tullio Cicerone, volume 4]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/cicero/the-orations-of-marcus-tullius-cicero-volume-4
- MLACicerone. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 [Le orazioni di Marco Tullio Cicerone, volume 4]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/cicero/the-orations-of-marcus-tullius-cicero-volume-4.
- ChicagoCicerone. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 [Le orazioni di Marco Tullio Cicerone, volume 4]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/cicero/the-orations-of-marcus-tullius-cicero-volume-4.
Riferimento dell'edizione che SigPhi riproduce: SigPhi ne è la riproduzione digitale, non l'editore. L'anno dell'edizione non figura nei metadati (da qui «n.d.») e il traduttore compare solo quando è noto.
Di che cosa tratta
Un volume delle orazioni di Cicerone in traduzione inglese: accuse, difese e interventi davanti al senato o al popolo.
Contesto e storia
Una cosa cambia il modo di leggerle: questi testi non sono ciò che fu detto in tribunale. Cicerone pubblicava le orazioni dopo, rivedute e limate, e talvolta molto mutate. Il caso famoso è la Pro Milone: il discorso giuntoci non è quello pronunciato — quel giorno fu sopraffatto dalle grida e Milone venne condannato — ma la versione che scrisse in seguito, come gli sarebbe piaciuto dirla. Sono letteratura non meno che documento giudiziario. La ripartizione in volumi è dell'editore.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul 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.…