M. T. Ciceronis Oratio Pro Tito Annio Milone, with a Tr. of Asconius' Intr. , and Engl. Notes. Ed. by J. S. Purton

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ...tabulae. The laws drawn up by the first decemvirs, B.C. 451, were inscribed on ten tables of brass; two more tables were added in the following year by the second Decemvirate. This code continued to be the basis of Roman jurisprudence down to the time of the emperors; but only fragments of them are now extant. quoquo modo, 'under any circumstances.' aliquando, 'upon certain occasions.' Comp. de Off. III. 3: 'utilitatem aliquando cum honestate pugnare.' CHAPTER IV. Atqui, 'now, surely: ' in Greek, xalrot. pudicitiam...afferebat. See Plutarch, Matins, c. 14; Val. Max. vI. r, ii.--propinquas. He was nephew to Marius. probus adolescens, 'being a young man of virtue.' Probus is frequently used in the sense of 'virtuous, ' as in Hor. Epod. 17, 40: --tu pudica, tu proba Perambulabis astra siaus aureum. Atque hunc.libcravit, 'and accordingly, this person being absolved from guilt, was released from his peril by that great man.' For this use of atque in the beginning of a sentence comp. pro Sext. c. 2, 3: 'atque ego sic statuo, iudices.' 10. Est enim...imbuti sumas, 'there if then such a law as this, judges; not written, but inborn; not a law which we have learnt, received from tradition, read in books, but which we have caught, imbibed, sucked in at the breast of Nature herself; at which we have arrived, not by teaching but by our very constitution, not by training but by instinct;--the law, viz. that' &c. omnis honesta...salutis, 'every method of securing safety would be morally justifiable.' silent...repetenda, 'for laws are silent amid arms, and do not require that their aid should be awaited, when he who might wish to await it, must first suffer an unjust penalty, before a just one can be demanded (from his aggressor).' ...