Ciceronis Pro A. Licinio Archia Poeta Oratio, Ed. by J. S. ReidThis 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. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ... attrita quotidiano actu forensi ingenia op time rerum talium blanditia reparantur, ideoque in hac lectione Cicero requiescendum putat. 24. Tantam posse contentionem: observe the order of the words. 26 His studiis: = 1, 1. 4 optimarum artium studiis. Deditum: a strong word; " devoted "; so in 2, 1. 19. Pudeat: n. on 1,1. 5 conftteor. 27 Litteris: elsewhere Cic. nearly always makes abdo take an accusative, either with or without in. Thus Ad Fam. VII 33, 2 me Mum in litteras abdere; In Pis. 93. With a perfect or pluperfect tense, and with the passive participle, since the motion is contemplated as finished and the rest begun, an ablative sometimes follows, but always with in. If in the present passage litleris is an abl. of place, the omission of in is without parallel in Cic. or any other prose writer before Tacitus. It has been taken as an ablative of the instrument as in Fam. IX 20, 3 involve me litteris (if the reading be right). But who would speak of using literature as an instrument or means for hiding? Others construe litteris here as a dative; cf. Verg. Aen. n 553 lateri capulo tenus abdidit ensem, who also has the local abl. without in, Georg. iI I 96 abde domo. But the dat. may safely be pronounced impossible in Cic. and it is most probable that in has dropped out before litteris in the MSS.; cf. n. on 7,1. 27, also on 2, 1. 25. Nihil...neque...neque: note the negatives after nihil, where in Eng. we should use positive expressions. 20 ltd vivo etc.: Cic. often makes this boast, as in II Phil. 20. 30 Tempore: here =" hour of peril," referring to criminal cases, while commodo refers to private law-suits. Cf. Pro Imp. Cn. Pomp. i amico-rum temporibus with Arch. 13, p. 26 1. 8 amicorum perimlis, In Vat. 2 peril ulo--tempori. 32... |
