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Cicero, De Domo Sua, 35

tres sunt res, quantum ego existimare possum, quae obstent hoc tempore Sex. Roscio, crimen adversariorum et audacia et potentia. criminis confictionem accusator Erucius accusator Erucius Erucius del. Madvig : accusator del. A. Eberhard ( contra Victorinum, Rhet. M. p. 210) suscepit, audaciae partis Roscii sibi poposcerunt depoposcerunt Victorinus , Chrysogonus autem, is qui plurimum potest, potentia pugnat. de hisce omnibus rebus me dicere oportere intellego. quid igitur est? [93] And since you find fault with me for this, that you assert that I am accustomed to speak too boastfully of myself; I ask, who ever heard me speak in this way, or speak of myself at all, except when I was compelled, and was doing so of necessity? For if, when robberies, and bribery, and lust are imputed to me, I am accustomed to reply that the country was saved by my prudence, and labour, and personal danger, I ought not to be considered as boasting of my own exploits, so much as refusing to confess what is imputed to me. But if, before these most miserable periods of the republic, nothing else was ever imputed to me, except the cruelty of my conduct at that time when I warded off destruction from the republic, what will you say? Ought I when accused in this manner, not to have replied at all, or to have replied in an abject tone? [94] But I have always thought it for the interest of even the republic itself, that I should uphold by my language the propriety and glory of that most noble exploit which I performed by the authority of the senate, with the consent of all virtuous men, for the safety of my country; especially when I am the only person in this republic who have been able to say on oath, in the hearing of the Roman people, that this city and this republic had been saved by my exertions. That accusation of cruelty has long since been extinguished, because men see that I was regretted, and demanded and sent for back by the wishes of all the citizens, not as a cruel tyrant, but as a most merciful parent. Another charge has risen up. [95] That departure of mine from the city is attacked, which accusation I cannot reply to without the greatest credit to myself. For what, O priests, ought I to say? That I lied from a consciousness of guilt? But that which was imputed to me as a crime, not only was not a crime, but was the most glorious action ever performed since the birth of man. That I feared the sentence of the people? But not only was there no trial at any time before the people, but if there had been, I should have departed with redoubled glory. That the protection of the good was wanting to me? It is false. That I was afraid of death? That is an assertion disgraceful to those who make it.

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1. Cicero, De Domo Sua, 37-38, 40-42, 34 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 34. estne hoc illi dicto atque facto Fimbriano Fimbriano Rufinian. ( Rhet. M. p. 44): Fimbria non ς : Fimbriae non cett. simillimum? accusatis Sex. Roscium. quid ita? quia de manibus vestris effugit, quia se occidi passus non est. illud, quia in Scaevola factum est, magis magis transpos. ante ferendum A. Eberhard indignum videtur, hoc, quia fit a Chrysogono, non non num Hotoman: del. Guarinus ( in Comment. ) est ferendum est ferendum est feferendum ς : esset ferendum χ2 . nam per deos immortalis! quid est in hac causa quod defensionis indigeat? qui locus ingenium patroni requirit aut oratoris eloquentiam magno opere desiderat? totam causam, iudices, explicemus atque ante oculos expositam consideremus; ita facillime quae res totum iudicium contineat et quibus de de ψ2 : om. cett. rebus nos dicere oporteat et quid vos sequi conveniat intellegetis.
2. Cicero, On The Haruspices, 45, 44 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
3. Cicero, Republic, 6.25 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 6.25. Quocirca si reditum in hunc locum desperaveris, in quo omnia sunt magnis et praestantibus viris, quanti tandem est ista hominum gloria, quae pertinere vix ad unius anni partem exiguam potest? Igitur alte spectare si voles atque hanc sedem et aeternam domum contueri, neque te sermonibus vulgi dedideris nec in praemiis humanis spem posueris rerum tuarum; suis te oportet inlecebris ipsa virtus trahat ad verum decus, quid de te alii loquantur, ipsi videant, sed loquentur tamen. Sermo autem omnis ille et angustiis cingitur iis regionum, quas vides, nec umquam de ullo perennis fuit et obruitur hominum interitu et oblivione posteritatis extinguitur.
4. Cicero, Letters, 2.12.2, 8.3.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
5. Cicero, Letters, 2.12.2, 8.3.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
6. Cicero, Letters, 2.12.2, 8.3.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
7. Cicero, Epistulae Ad Quintum Fratrem, 2.12.2, 8.3.3 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
8. Cicero, Philippicae, 2.91 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
9. Cicero, Pro Lege Manilia, 7 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 7. praeter ceteras gentis atque avidi laudis fuistis, delenda vobis est est vobis Eb1 illa macula Mithridatico bello superiore concepta concepta HE : suscepta cett. quae penitus iam iam om. H insedit ac nimis inveteravit in populi Romani nomine, quod is qui uno die tota in Asia tot in civitatibus uno nuntio atque una significatione significatione H : significatione litterarum cett. omnis omnis scripsi : om. codd. ( post -one) curavit HE : denotavit cett. civis Romanos necandos trucidandosque curavit, non modo adhuc poenam nullam suo dignam scelere scelere dignam H suscepit sed ab illo tempore annum iam tertium et vicesimum regnat et ita regnat om. t p , et ita regnat ut se non Ponti Ponti E p : Ponto cett. neque Cappadociae latebris occultare velit sed emergere ex ex Ht : et E : e dp patrio regno atque in vestris vectigalibus, hoc est in Asiae luce, versari. 7. ac ne illud quidem vobis neglegendum est quod mihi ego extremum proposueram, cum essem de belli genere genere belli H dicturus, quod ad multorum bona civium Romanorum pertinet; quorum vobis pro vestra sapientia, Quirites, habenda est ratio diligenter. nam et publicani, homines honestissimi atque atque HE : et cett. ornatissimi, suas rationes et copias in illam provinciam contulerunt, quorum ipsorum per se res et fortunae vobis curae esse debent. etenim, si vectigalia nervos esse rei publicae semper duximus, eum certe ordinem qui exercet illa firmamentum ceterorum ordinum recte esse recte esse necesse H dicemus.
10. Cicero, Pro Milone, 72-92, 3 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
11. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 1.37, 1.40, 1.91 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE) 1.37. frequens enim consessus quos... con in r. K 1 consessus s consensu X, s in fine add. V 1 theatri, in quo sunt mulierculae et pueri, movetur audiens tam grande carmen: A/dsum Trag. inc. 73 atque advenio A/cherunte acher onte K (u ss. c ) vi/x via alta atque a/rdua Pe/r speluncas sa/xis structas a/speris pende/ntibus Ma/xumis, ubi ri/gida constat cra/ssa crassa s. v. add. K c caligo i/nferum, ubi ...inferum Non. 272,39 tantumque valuit error—qui mihi quidem iam sublatus videtur—, ut, corpora cremata cum scirent, tamen ea fieri apud inferos fingerent, quae sine corporibus nec fieri possent possunt V 2 nec intellegi. animos enim per se se s. v. add. V c ipsos viventis vigentis ex viventis V 1 non poterant mente complecti, formam aliquam figuramque quaerebant. inde Homeri tota ne/kuia, NECUIA KRV ( sed A in p A corr. 1 ) necyia mai. litt. G NErCUO mantia RK nepsyomantia mai. litt. G psichomantia, sed psicho in r. V 1 aut 2 ( ex div. 1, 132 ) corr. Dav. inde ea quae meus amicus Appius nekuomantei=a faciebat, inde -de in om. K 1 add. c in vicinia vitia KRV 1 (vicinia corr. 1 ) vicia G nostra Averni lacus, u/nde animae excita/ntur obscura u/mbra opertae, apertae ( vel ę, -e K 1 ) opertę corr. V 1 K 2 ima/gines mo/rtuorum, alto o/stio hostio alte (altę K 1 ) ostio s alto corr. K 2 V 1aut2 s . locum rest. Leo. alii aut imagines mortuorum in fine relicta male Ciceroni ipsi tribuunt aut ibi mort. imagines scribunt (praeterea aperto ex ostio Mdv. opertae ex ostio Ribb. altae Klotz) Acheru/ntis, acheruntis (acherontis KV 1 e corr. ) s. s. imagines mortuorum X salso sa/nguine. Trag. inc. 76 cf. Leo Progr. Gott. 1910 p. 21. has tamen imagines loqui volunt, quod fieri nec sine lingua nec sine palato nec sine faucium laterum pulmonum vi et figura potest. nihil enim animo videre poterant, ad oculos omnia referebant. 1.40. Macte mac in r. V c virtute! Macte virtute Non. 341, 37 ego enim ipse cum eodem ipso ipso cf. div. 2, 95 isto We. non invitus erraverim. num igitur dubitamus—? an sicut pleraque? quamquam hoc quidem minime; persuadent enim mathematici terram in medio mundo sitam ad universi caeli complexum quasi puncti instar optinere, quod ke/ntron centron X (ante Vitr. praeterea ap. Rom. non invenitur) illi vocant; eam porro naturam esse quattuor omnia gignentium corporum, ut, quasi partita habeant inter se ac divisa momenta, terrena et umida umida RG 1 V 1 ( add. G 1 V 1 ) suopte nutu et suo pondere ad paris angulos in terram et in mare mari X mare K 2 s ferantur, reliquae duae partes, una ignea altera animalis, ut illae superiores ille GKV superioris X in medium locum mundi gravitate ferantur et pondere, sic hae rursum rursus V 2 rectis lineis in caelestem calestem GV 1 locum subvolent, sive ipsa natura superiora adpetente sive quod a gravioribus leviora superiora... 23 leviora om. R 1 add. m. vet. in mg. (superiora ex -re). eadem verba usque ad levio fere omnia in r. scripsit V 1 natura repellantur. quae cum constent, sive quod ... constent Non. 273, 7 perspicuum debet esse animos, cum e corpore excesserint, sive illi sint animales, id est spirabiles, spirabiles KV 2 (l sp.) spiritabiles RV 1 spiritales G sive ignei, sublime ferri. 1.91. quae propter incertos casus casus add. V c cotidie imminet, imminet V propter brevitatem vitae numquam potest longe abesse, quo minus quominus K in omne tempus rei p. suisque reip. suisque GV reip s usque ex reipsiusque K 2 reip ussuisque R ( al. m. ) consulat, cum cum Sey. ut W aut Mue. posteritatem ipsam, cuius sensum habiturus non sit, ad se putet pertinere. quare licet etiam mortalem esse animum animum K 2 s animam X iudicantem aeterna moliri, non gloriae cupiditate, quam sensurus non sis, sit X si t V ( ss. 1 aut c ) sed virtutis, quam necessario gloria, etiamsi tu id non agas, consequatur. Natura vero si add.Ba. se sic habet, ut, quo modo initium nobis rerum omnium ortus noster adferat, sic exitum mors, ut nihil pertinuit ad nos ante ortum, sic nihil post mortem pertinebit. in quo quid potest esse mali, cum mors nec ad vivos pertineat nec ad mortuos?
12. Anon., Rhetorica Ad Herennium, 1.24 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
13. Sallust, Catiline, 11.2 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
14. Sallust, Iugurtha, 4.6 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
15. Pliny The Elder, Natural History, 7.52.178-7.52.179 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
16. Plutarch, Cicero, 35.4 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
17. Tacitus, Annals, 15.19 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) 15.19.  There was a perverse custom in vogue at that period for childless candidates, shortly before an election or an allotment of provinces, to procure themselves sons by fictitious acts of adoption, then, after obtaining in their quality of fathers a praetorship or governorship, to emancipate immediately the adopted persons. The consequence was that the authentic heads of families made an embittered appeal to the senate. They dwelt on the rights of nature — the anxieties entailed by rearing children — as against the calculated frauds and ephemeral character of adoption. "It was ample compensation for the childless that, almost without a care and quite without responsibilities, they should have influence, honours, anything and everything, ready to their hand. In their own case, the promises of the law, for which they had waited so long, were converted into a mockery, when some person who had known parenthood without anxiety and childlessness without bereavement could overtake in a moment the long-cherished hopes of genuine fathers." A senatorial decree was thereupon passed, ruling that a feigned adoption should not be a qualification for public office in any form, nor even a valid title for the acquiry of an inheritance.
18. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 2.29-2.30 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
adoption, age requirement	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118
adoption, fake adoptions	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118, 119
adoption, imperial family and	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 119
adoption, involuntary childlessness and	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118, 119
adoption, permanence of	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118
adoption, women and	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 119
adrogatio	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 119
altar	Black, Thomas, and Thompson, Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate (2022) 201
annius milo, t.	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 136
asylum	Black, Thomas, and Thompson, Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate (2022) 201
childlessness, methods to overcome	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118, 119
cicero, pro milone	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 136
cicero (m. tullius cicero), on adoption of p. clodius pulcher	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118, 119
clodia	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 136
clodius pulcher, p.	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118, 119
domitia lucilla	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 119
emancipation	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118
emperors, adoption by	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 119
family, imperial, adoption and	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 119
gentiles	Black, Thomas, and Thompson, Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate (2022) 201
importance of children, nomen, pecunia, and sacra	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118
inheritance, adoption and	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118, 119
judgment, divine	Black, Thomas, and Thompson, Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate (2022) 201
justice	Black, Thomas, and Thompson, Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate (2022) 201
laws, sempronian'	Naiden,Ancient Suppliation (2006)" 270
livy	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 136
lucan	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 136
men, blame and criticisms of	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118
men, childlessness of	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118, 119
mores	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118
nomen, pecunia, and sacra	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118
of	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 136
patria potestas	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 119
pliny the elder	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 136
pompeius magnus, sex.	Duffalo, The Ghosts of the Past: Latin Literature, the Dead, and Rome's Transition to a Principate (2006) 136
property, adoption and	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118, 119
shrine	Black, Thomas, and Thompson, Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate (2022) 201
succession, imperial, adoption and	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 119
tacitus (p. ? cornelius tacitus), on fake adoptions	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 118
temple, in revelation	Black, Thomas, and Thompson, Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate (2022) 201
vengeance, divine	Black, Thomas, and Thompson, Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate (2022) 201
war	Black, Thomas, and Thompson, Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate (2022) 201
wicked	Black, Thomas, and Thompson, Ephesos as a Religious Center under the Principate (2022) 201
women, adoption and	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 119
women, imperial, adoption and	Hug, Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome (2023) 119