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CICERO, DE DOMO SVA: THREE TEXTUAL PROBLEMS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2018

Andrew R. Dyck
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quod idem [sc. the invalidity of Clodius’ legislation] tu, Lentule, uidisti in ea lege quam de me tulisti. nam non est ita latum ut mihi Romam uenire liceret, sed ut uenirem; non enim uoluisti id quod licebat ferre ut liceret, sed me ita esse in re publica magis ut arcessitus imperio populi Romani uiderer quam <ad> administrandam ciuitatem restitutus.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 68 , Issue 1 , May 2018 , pp. 336 - 338
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References

1 Maslowski, T. (ed.), M. Tullius Cicero, Fasc. 21: Orationes post reditum (Leipzig, 1981), 60–1Google Scholar.

2 Cf. OLD s.v. administro 4, where our passage is cited. Cf. Arch. 14: quas [sc. imagines fortissimorum uirorum] ego mihi semper in administranda re publica proponens animum et mentem meam ipsa cogitatione hominum excellentium conformabam, where his action, including governing the state, is placed in the past.

3 Cf. Bailey, D.R. Shackleton (trans.), Cicero, Back from Exile: Six Speeches Upon his Return (Chicago, 1991), 229Google Scholar as well as others previously on other grounds; cf. Maslowski (n. 1), ad loc.

4 In classical Latin, in, not ad, is the expected construction for such restitution; cf. OLD s.v. restituo 6.

5 Cf. QFr. 1.1.25; Off. 1.88; its synonym administrare rem publicam is even commoner: Arch. 14 (above, n. 2); Fam. 9.21; Off. 1.71, etc.

6 Wuilleumier, P. (ed., trans.), Cicéron, Discours, tome xiii: Au sénat, Au peuple, Sur sa maison (Paris, 1952), 134Google Scholar.

7 Maslowski (n. 1), 64.

8 Peterson, G. (ed.), M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Cum senatui gratias egit, etc. (Oxford, 1912)Google Scholar, ad loc.

9 He has just argued the point at length: §§54–71.

10 Cf. Cicero's complaint of abuse of magisterial power in the relegation of L. Aelius Lamia (Red. sen. 12; Pis. 23 and 64) as well as in depriving Cicero of the protection he should have enjoyed (cf. Red. sen. 9–10; Red. pop. 21; Dom. 91).

11 Which, of course, had passed Clodius’ anti-Ciceronian laws.

12 Cf. the similar list of factors at Parad. 28, where the consul stands for the magistrates in general and, perhaps under the influence of Rep. 1.39, the consensus populi liber replaces the populi Romani potestas, and iuris et aequitatis … memoria covers the judicial element.

13 quemquam <alium> was already proposed by Mueller.

14 He was the brother of Clodius’ wife Pinaria: §§117–18.

15 I would like to thank this journal's reader for helpful advice.