Restoring courts and credit · 恢复司法与信用
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Pro Marcello 23 urges Caesar to restore courts, confidence and stricter laws after war.
Evidence limit: This is a rhetorical demand about future reconstruction, not evidence that every proposed measure was implemented.
marcello 23
M. Tullius Cicero The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge, B. A. London George Bell & Sons, York Street, Covent Garden 1891; translator: Charles Duke Yonge
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But if to the chances of human life and the uncertain condition of man's health there were to be added also any conspiracy of wickedness and treachery, then what god should we think able to assist the republic, even if he were to desire to do so? All things, O Caius Caesar, which you now see lying stricken and prostrate—as it is inevitable that they should be—through the violence of war, must now be raised up again by you alone. The courts of justice must be reestablished, confidence must be restored, licentiousness must be repressed, the increase of population must be encouraged, everything which has become lax and disordered must be braced up and strengthened by strict laws.
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But still, as there are so many hiding places and so many dark corners in men's minds, let us increase your suspicions, for by so doing we shall at the same time increase your diligence. For who is there so ignorant of everything, so very new to the affairs of the republic, so entirely destitute of thought either for his own or for the general safety, as not to understand that his own safety is bound up with yours? that the lives of all men depend on your single existence? I myself, in truth, while I think of you day and night,—as I ought to do,—fear only the chances to which all men are liable, and the uncertain events of health and the frail tenure of our common nature, and I grieve that, while the republic ought to he immortal, it depends wholly on the life of one mortal man
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In so vast a civil war, when there was such ardour of feeling and of warlike preparation on both sides, it was impossible but that—whatever the ultimate result of the war might he—the republic which had been violently shaken by it should lose my ornaments of its dignity and many bulwarks of its security, and that each general should do many things while in arms, which he would have forbidden to have been done while clad in the garb of Peace. And all those wounds of war thus inflicted now require your attention, and there is no one except you who is able to heal them.
Jean-Michel David, “The Law and the Courts in Roman Political Culture,” in Arena and Prag (2022), p. 433. Publisher record