Never published,
according
to Pseud- In L.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
]
fortune. The elder Scipio, however, introduced an
secunda, ad populum.
ordinance by which the front benches in the orches-
De Lege Agraria, Oratio
tra were reserved for the senate; but, notwithstand-
tertia, ad populum.
ing the immense influence of Africanus, the inno- ** 3. De L. Roscio Othone. [Otho. ]
vation gave a heavy blow to his popularity. Ac- 4. Pro C. Rabirio. [Rabirius. ]
cordingly, when Roscius Otho carried a law by * * 5. De Proscriptorum Liberis.
which places immediately behind the senators were 6. In deponenda Provincia. [CATILINA, p.
set apart for the equestrian order, the populace
680. ]
were rendered furious; and when Otho, not long 7. In Catilinam prima Oratio,
after the new regulation was put in force, entered
8th Nov.
the theatre, he was greeted with a perfect storm of 8. secunda, 9th Nov. > [CATILINA. )
disapprobation. The knights on the other hand, 9.
tertia,
shewed ererç inclination to support their benefactor, 10.
quarta 5th Dec.
both parties grew more violent, and a riot seemed Pro Murena. Towards the end of B. c. 63, but
inevitable, when Cicero entered, called upon the before 10th Dec. [Mureka. )
spectators to follow him to the area of a neighbour- ** Contra Concionem Q. Metelli, 3rd Jan. , B. C.
ing temple, and there so wrought upon their feelings 62. (METELLUS. ]
that they returned and joined heartily in doing Pro P. Cornelio Sulla, B. C. 62. [Sulla. )
honour to Otho. Such a victory needs no com- ** In Clodium et Curionem, B. C. 61. (See M.
ment. The address is unhappily lost.
Tullius. ]
In order to avoid repetition, an account of each [Pro A. Licinio Archia. Generally assigned to
oration is giren separately with the biography of the B. C. 61. [ARCHIAS. ] ]
individual principally concerned. The following Pro Scipione Nasica, B. C. 60. (Ad Att. ii. 1. )
table presents a view of all the speeches whose Pro L. Valerio Flacco, B. C. 59. [L. Flaccus. ]
titles have been preserved. As before, those which Pro A. Minucio Thermo. Twice defended in B. C.
have totally perished are printed in italics; those to 59. (THERMUS. ]
which two asterisks are prefixed survive only in a Pro Ascitio. Before B. C. 56. (Pro Cael. 10. )
few mutilated fragments; those with one asterisk [Rufus. ]
are imperfect, but enough is left to convey a clear Pro 11. Cispio. After B. c. 57. (Pro Planc. 31. )
idea of the work.
[Post Reditum in Senatu, 5th Sept. , B. C. 57. ]
Pro P. Quinctio, B. C. 81. [QUINCTIUS. ) [Post Reditum ad Quirites, 6th or 7th Sept. , B. C.
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino, B. C. 80. [Roscius. ) 57. ]
Pro Mulicre Arretina. Before his journey to [Pro Domo sua ad Pontifices, 29th Sept. , B. c. 57. ]
Athens. (See above, p. 709, and pro Caecin. [De Haruspicum Responsis, B. C. 56. )
33. )
Pro L. Calpurnio Pisone Bestia, llth Feb. , B. C.
* Pro Q. Roscio. Comoedo, B. c. 76. (Roscius. ) 56. (Ad Q. Fr. ii. 13. $ 6. )
Pro Adolescentibus Siculis, B. c. 75. (See Plut. Pro P. Sextio. Early in March, B. c. 56. (Sextius. ]
Cic. 6. )
In Vatinium Interrogatio. Same date. (VATINIUS. ]
Quum Quaestor Lilybaeo decederet, B. C. 74. Pro M. Caelio Rufo. [Rufus. ]
Pro Scamandro, B. C. 74. (See pro Cluent. 17. ) Pro L. Cornelio Balbo, B. c. 56. [BALBUS. ]
[CLUENTIUS. ]
De Provinciis Consularibus, B. c. 56. [A. GA-
** Pro L. Vareno, B. C. 71, probably. (VARENUS. ] BINIUS. ]
* Pro M. Tullio, B. c. 71. [M. Tullius. ] ** De Rege Alexandrino, B. c. 56. (A. GABINIUS;
Pro C. Mustio. Before B. c. 70. (See Ver. Act. PTOLEN A EUS AULETES. ]
ii. 53.
Never published, according to Pseud- In L. Pisonem, B. c. 55. [Piso. ]
Ascon. in 53. )
•* In A. Gabinium. (Quintil. xi. 1. & 73. )
In Q. Caecilium, B. c. 70. [Verres. ]
Pro Cn. Plancio, B. c. 55. [PLANCIUS. )
In Verrem Actio prima, 5th August, B. c. 70. Pro Caninio Gallo, B. C. 55. [Gallus. )
[VERRES. )
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo, B. C. 54. [RABIRIUS
In Verrem Actio secunda. Not delivered. [Ver- POSTUMUS. ]
RES. ]
** Pro Vatinio, B. c. 54. (VATINIUS. ]
## p. 743 (#763) ############################################
CICERO.
743
CICERO.
• Pro M. Aemilio Scauro, B. c. 54. [SCAURUS. ] to have published with large additions after the
Pro Crasso in Senatu, B. c. 54. (Ad Fum. i. 9. death of his patron. (Ad Att. xvi. 5, comp. ad
$ 7. )
Fam. xvi. 17. ) We now have in all upwards of
Pro Druso, B. C. 54. (Ad Att. iv. 15. ) [Drusus. ] eight hundred, undoubtedly genuine, extending
Pro C. Messio
, v. c. 54. (ad Au. iv. 15. ) [Mes over a space of 26 years, and commonly arranged
SIUS. )
in the following manner :
Dc Reatinorum Causa contra Interamnates. (Ad 1. “ Epistolarum ad Familiares 8. Epistolarum
Att. ir. 15. )
ad Diversos Libri XVI," titles which have been
** De Aere alicno Milonis Interrogatio, B. c. 53. permitted to keep their ground, although the for-
[Milo. )
mer conveys an inaccurate idea of the contents
Pro T. Annio Milonc, B. C. 52. (Milo. ]
and the latter is bad Latin. The volume contains
Pro M. Saufeio. Two orations. B. c. 52. (SAU- a series of 426 epistles, commencing with a formal
FEIUS. )
congratulation to Pompey on his success in the
Contra T. Munatium Plancum. In Dec. B. c. 52. Mithridatic war, written in the course of B. C. 62,
(See Ad Fam. viii. 2, Philipp. vi. 4 ; Dion Cass. and terminating with a note to Cassius, despatched
xl. 55. )
about the beginning of July, B. C. 43, announcing
Pro Cornelio Dolabella, B. C. 50. (Ad Fam. iii. 10. ) that Lepidus had been declared a public enemy by
[Pro M. Marcello, B. C. 47. [M. MARCELLUS. ] Í the senate, in consequence of having gone over to
Pro Q. Ligario, B. C. 46. [Q. LIGARIUS. ] Antony. They are not placed in chronological
Pro Rege Deiotaro, B. C. 45. (DeloTARUS. ) order, but those addressed to the same individuals,
De Pacc, in Scnatu, 17 March, B. C. 44. (Dion with their replies, where these exist, are grouped
Cass. xliv. 63. )
together without reference to the date of the rest.
It will be seen from the marks attached to the Thus the whole of those in the third book are
Orations in the above lists that doubts are enter- addressed to Appius Pulcher, his predecessor in the
tained with regard to the genuineness of those government of Cilicia ; those of the fourteenth to
Pro Archia, Post Reditum in Senatu, Pro Domo | Terentia; those of the fifteenth to Tiro; those of
sua ad Pontifices, De Haruspicum Responsis, Pro the fourth to Sulpicius, Marcellus, and Figulus, with
M. Marcello. An account of the controversy with replies from the two former; while the whole of
regard to these is given under M. MARCELLUS. those in the eighth are from M. Caelius Rufus,
The following are universally allowed to be spu- most of them transmitted to Cicero while in his
rious, and therefore have not been admitted into province, containing full particulars of all the poli-
the catalogue :
tical and social gossip of the metropolis.
[“ Responsio ad Orationem C. Sallustii Crispi. ” 2. “
Epistolarum ad T. Pomponium Atticum
[SALLUSTIUS. ]
Libri XVI. ” A series of 396 epistles addressed to
Oratio ad Populum et ad Equites antequam iret in Atticus, of which eleven were written in the years
exilium.
B. C. 68, 67, 65, and 62, the remainder after the
Epistola 6. Declamatio ad Octavianum.
end of B. C. 62, and the last in Nov. B. C. 44. (Ad
Oratio adversus Valerium.
Att. xvi. 15. ) They are for the most part in
Oratio de Pace. ]
chronological order, although dislocations occur
The Editio Princeps of the Orations is probably here and there. Occasionally, copies of letters re-
that printed in 1471 at Rome by Sweynheym and ceived from or sent to others--from Caesar, Antony,
Pannartz, fol. , under the inspection of Andrew, Balbus, Hirtius, Oppius, to Dolabella, Plancus, &c. ,
bishop of Aleria. Another edition was printed in are included; and to the 16th of the last book no
the same year at Venice, by Valdarfer; and a less than six are subjoined, to Plancus, Capito, and
third at Venice, in 1472, by Ambergau, both in Cupiennius.
folio; besides which there is a fourth, in very 3. “ Epistolarum ad Q. Fratrem Libri III. "
ancient characters, without date, name of place A series of 29 epistles addressed to his brother,
or printer, which many bibliographers believe to the first written in B. c. 59, while Quintus was
be the earliest of all. The most useful editions still propraetor of Asia, containing an admirable
are those of Jo. Roigny, fol. , Paris, 1536, contain- summary of the duties and obligations of a provin-
ing a complete collection of all the commentaries cial governor; the last towards the end of B. c. 54.
which had appeared up to that date; of Graevius, 4. We find in most editions - Epistolarum ad
3 vols. in 6 parts, Amsterdam, 1695—1699, form- Brutum Liber,” a series of eighteen epistles all
ing part of the series of Variorum Classics in 8vo. , written after the death of Caesar, eleven from
and comprising among other aids the notes of Cicero to Brutus, six from Brutus to Cicero, and
Manutius and Lambinus entire ; to which we may one from Brutus to Atticus. To these are added
add that of Klotz, Leipzig, 1835, 3 vols. 8vo. , with eight more, first published by Cratander, five from
excellent introductions and annotations in the Ger- Cicero to Brutus, three from Brutus to Cicero.
fortune. The elder Scipio, however, introduced an
secunda, ad populum.
ordinance by which the front benches in the orches-
De Lege Agraria, Oratio
tra were reserved for the senate; but, notwithstand-
tertia, ad populum.
ing the immense influence of Africanus, the inno- ** 3. De L. Roscio Othone. [Otho. ]
vation gave a heavy blow to his popularity. Ac- 4. Pro C. Rabirio. [Rabirius. ]
cordingly, when Roscius Otho carried a law by * * 5. De Proscriptorum Liberis.
which places immediately behind the senators were 6. In deponenda Provincia. [CATILINA, p.
set apart for the equestrian order, the populace
680. ]
were rendered furious; and when Otho, not long 7. In Catilinam prima Oratio,
after the new regulation was put in force, entered
8th Nov.
the theatre, he was greeted with a perfect storm of 8. secunda, 9th Nov. > [CATILINA. )
disapprobation. The knights on the other hand, 9.
tertia,
shewed ererç inclination to support their benefactor, 10.
quarta 5th Dec.
both parties grew more violent, and a riot seemed Pro Murena. Towards the end of B. c. 63, but
inevitable, when Cicero entered, called upon the before 10th Dec. [Mureka. )
spectators to follow him to the area of a neighbour- ** Contra Concionem Q. Metelli, 3rd Jan. , B. C.
ing temple, and there so wrought upon their feelings 62. (METELLUS. ]
that they returned and joined heartily in doing Pro P. Cornelio Sulla, B. C. 62. [Sulla. )
honour to Otho. Such a victory needs no com- ** In Clodium et Curionem, B. C. 61. (See M.
ment. The address is unhappily lost.
Tullius. ]
In order to avoid repetition, an account of each [Pro A. Licinio Archia. Generally assigned to
oration is giren separately with the biography of the B. C. 61. [ARCHIAS. ] ]
individual principally concerned. The following Pro Scipione Nasica, B. C. 60. (Ad Att. ii. 1. )
table presents a view of all the speeches whose Pro L. Valerio Flacco, B. C. 59. [L. Flaccus. ]
titles have been preserved. As before, those which Pro A. Minucio Thermo. Twice defended in B. C.
have totally perished are printed in italics; those to 59. (THERMUS. ]
which two asterisks are prefixed survive only in a Pro Ascitio. Before B. C. 56. (Pro Cael. 10. )
few mutilated fragments; those with one asterisk [Rufus. ]
are imperfect, but enough is left to convey a clear Pro 11. Cispio. After B. c. 57. (Pro Planc. 31. )
idea of the work.
[Post Reditum in Senatu, 5th Sept. , B. C. 57. ]
Pro P. Quinctio, B. C. 81. [QUINCTIUS. ) [Post Reditum ad Quirites, 6th or 7th Sept. , B. C.
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino, B. C. 80. [Roscius. ) 57. ]
Pro Mulicre Arretina. Before his journey to [Pro Domo sua ad Pontifices, 29th Sept. , B. c. 57. ]
Athens. (See above, p. 709, and pro Caecin. [De Haruspicum Responsis, B. C. 56. )
33. )
Pro L. Calpurnio Pisone Bestia, llth Feb. , B. C.
* Pro Q. Roscio. Comoedo, B. c. 76. (Roscius. ) 56. (Ad Q. Fr. ii. 13. $ 6. )
Pro Adolescentibus Siculis, B. c. 75. (See Plut. Pro P. Sextio. Early in March, B. c. 56. (Sextius. ]
Cic. 6. )
In Vatinium Interrogatio. Same date. (VATINIUS. ]
Quum Quaestor Lilybaeo decederet, B. C. 74. Pro M. Caelio Rufo. [Rufus. ]
Pro Scamandro, B. C. 74. (See pro Cluent. 17. ) Pro L. Cornelio Balbo, B. c. 56. [BALBUS. ]
[CLUENTIUS. ]
De Provinciis Consularibus, B. c. 56. [A. GA-
** Pro L. Vareno, B. C. 71, probably. (VARENUS. ] BINIUS. ]
* Pro M. Tullio, B. c. 71. [M. Tullius. ] ** De Rege Alexandrino, B. c. 56. (A. GABINIUS;
Pro C. Mustio. Before B. c. 70. (See Ver. Act. PTOLEN A EUS AULETES. ]
ii. 53.
Never published, according to Pseud- In L. Pisonem, B. c. 55. [Piso. ]
Ascon. in 53. )
•* In A. Gabinium. (Quintil. xi. 1. & 73. )
In Q. Caecilium, B. c. 70. [Verres. ]
Pro Cn. Plancio, B. c. 55. [PLANCIUS. )
In Verrem Actio prima, 5th August, B. c. 70. Pro Caninio Gallo, B. C. 55. [Gallus. )
[VERRES. )
Pro C. Rabirio Postumo, B. C. 54. [RABIRIUS
In Verrem Actio secunda. Not delivered. [Ver- POSTUMUS. ]
RES. ]
** Pro Vatinio, B. c. 54. (VATINIUS. ]
## p. 743 (#763) ############################################
CICERO.
743
CICERO.
• Pro M. Aemilio Scauro, B. c. 54. [SCAURUS. ] to have published with large additions after the
Pro Crasso in Senatu, B. c. 54. (Ad Fum. i. 9. death of his patron. (Ad Att. xvi. 5, comp. ad
$ 7. )
Fam. xvi. 17. ) We now have in all upwards of
Pro Druso, B. C. 54. (Ad Att. iv. 15. ) [Drusus. ] eight hundred, undoubtedly genuine, extending
Pro C. Messio
, v. c. 54. (ad Au. iv. 15. ) [Mes over a space of 26 years, and commonly arranged
SIUS. )
in the following manner :
Dc Reatinorum Causa contra Interamnates. (Ad 1. “ Epistolarum ad Familiares 8. Epistolarum
Att. ir. 15. )
ad Diversos Libri XVI," titles which have been
** De Aere alicno Milonis Interrogatio, B. c. 53. permitted to keep their ground, although the for-
[Milo. )
mer conveys an inaccurate idea of the contents
Pro T. Annio Milonc, B. C. 52. (Milo. ]
and the latter is bad Latin. The volume contains
Pro M. Saufeio. Two orations. B. c. 52. (SAU- a series of 426 epistles, commencing with a formal
FEIUS. )
congratulation to Pompey on his success in the
Contra T. Munatium Plancum. In Dec. B. c. 52. Mithridatic war, written in the course of B. C. 62,
(See Ad Fam. viii. 2, Philipp. vi. 4 ; Dion Cass. and terminating with a note to Cassius, despatched
xl. 55. )
about the beginning of July, B. C. 43, announcing
Pro Cornelio Dolabella, B. C. 50. (Ad Fam. iii. 10. ) that Lepidus had been declared a public enemy by
[Pro M. Marcello, B. C. 47. [M. MARCELLUS. ] Í the senate, in consequence of having gone over to
Pro Q. Ligario, B. C. 46. [Q. LIGARIUS. ] Antony. They are not placed in chronological
Pro Rege Deiotaro, B. C. 45. (DeloTARUS. ) order, but those addressed to the same individuals,
De Pacc, in Scnatu, 17 March, B. C. 44. (Dion with their replies, where these exist, are grouped
Cass. xliv. 63. )
together without reference to the date of the rest.
It will be seen from the marks attached to the Thus the whole of those in the third book are
Orations in the above lists that doubts are enter- addressed to Appius Pulcher, his predecessor in the
tained with regard to the genuineness of those government of Cilicia ; those of the fourteenth to
Pro Archia, Post Reditum in Senatu, Pro Domo | Terentia; those of the fifteenth to Tiro; those of
sua ad Pontifices, De Haruspicum Responsis, Pro the fourth to Sulpicius, Marcellus, and Figulus, with
M. Marcello. An account of the controversy with replies from the two former; while the whole of
regard to these is given under M. MARCELLUS. those in the eighth are from M. Caelius Rufus,
The following are universally allowed to be spu- most of them transmitted to Cicero while in his
rious, and therefore have not been admitted into province, containing full particulars of all the poli-
the catalogue :
tical and social gossip of the metropolis.
[“ Responsio ad Orationem C. Sallustii Crispi. ” 2. “
Epistolarum ad T. Pomponium Atticum
[SALLUSTIUS. ]
Libri XVI. ” A series of 396 epistles addressed to
Oratio ad Populum et ad Equites antequam iret in Atticus, of which eleven were written in the years
exilium.
B. C. 68, 67, 65, and 62, the remainder after the
Epistola 6. Declamatio ad Octavianum.
end of B. C. 62, and the last in Nov. B. C. 44. (Ad
Oratio adversus Valerium.
Att. xvi. 15. ) They are for the most part in
Oratio de Pace. ]
chronological order, although dislocations occur
The Editio Princeps of the Orations is probably here and there. Occasionally, copies of letters re-
that printed in 1471 at Rome by Sweynheym and ceived from or sent to others--from Caesar, Antony,
Pannartz, fol. , under the inspection of Andrew, Balbus, Hirtius, Oppius, to Dolabella, Plancus, &c. ,
bishop of Aleria. Another edition was printed in are included; and to the 16th of the last book no
the same year at Venice, by Valdarfer; and a less than six are subjoined, to Plancus, Capito, and
third at Venice, in 1472, by Ambergau, both in Cupiennius.
folio; besides which there is a fourth, in very 3. “ Epistolarum ad Q. Fratrem Libri III. "
ancient characters, without date, name of place A series of 29 epistles addressed to his brother,
or printer, which many bibliographers believe to the first written in B. c. 59, while Quintus was
be the earliest of all. The most useful editions still propraetor of Asia, containing an admirable
are those of Jo. Roigny, fol. , Paris, 1536, contain- summary of the duties and obligations of a provin-
ing a complete collection of all the commentaries cial governor; the last towards the end of B. c. 54.
which had appeared up to that date; of Graevius, 4. We find in most editions - Epistolarum ad
3 vols. in 6 parts, Amsterdam, 1695—1699, form- Brutum Liber,” a series of eighteen epistles all
ing part of the series of Variorum Classics in 8vo. , written after the death of Caesar, eleven from
and comprising among other aids the notes of Cicero to Brutus, six from Brutus to Cicero, and
Manutius and Lambinus entire ; to which we may one from Brutus to Atticus. To these are added
add that of Klotz, Leipzig, 1835, 3 vols. 8vo. , with eight more, first published by Cratander, five from
excellent introductions and annotations in the Ger- Cicero to Brutus, three from Brutus to Cicero.
