Pro Rege Deiotaro · 为国王德约塔鲁斯

Cicero

An advocacy speech delivered before Caesar in his house; accusation and rebuttal are not adjudicated facts.

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Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University; Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Vol. 6. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1918. · Original XML · CC BY-SA 4.0

Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University; 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 · Original XML · CC BY-SA 4.0

1 · Cicero

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cum in omnibus causis gravioribus, C. Caesar, initio dicendi commoveri soleam vehementius quam videtur vel usus vel aetas mea postulare, tum in hac causa ita multa me perturbant ut, quantum mea fides studi mihi adferat ad salutem regis Deiotari defendendam, tantum facultatis timor detrahat. primum dico pro capite fortunisque regis, quod ipsum, etsi non iniquum est in tuo dumtaxat periculo, tamen est ita inusitatum, regem reum capitis esse, ut ante hoc tempus non sit auditum.

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multa me α, Prisc. K. iii. p. 369: me multa βγ

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regis Deiotari γ

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etsi αβa: si gh

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:1

In all causes of more than ordinary importance, O Caius Caesar, I am accustomed, at the beginning of my speech, to be more vehemently affected than either common custom or my own age appears to require. And in this particular cause I am agitated by so many considerations, that in proportion as my fidelity to my friend inspires me with zeal to defend the safety of king Deiotarus, in the same proportion do my fears take away from my ability to do so. In the first place, I am speaking in defence of the life and fortunes of a king; and although there is no particular injustice in such a fact, especially when it is oneself who is in danger yet it is so unusual for a king to be tried for his life, that up to this time no such thing has ever been heard of.

2 · Cicero

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deinde eum regem quem ornare antea cuncto cum senatu solebam pro perpetuis eius in nostram rem publicam meritis, nunc contra atrocissimum crimen cogor defendere. accedit ut accusatorum alterius crudelitate, alterius indignitate conturber. crudelis Castor, ne dicam sceleratum et impium, qui nepos avum in capitis discrimen adduxerit adulescentiaeque suae terrorem intulerit ei cuius senectutem tueri et tegere debebat, commendationemque ineuntis aetatis ab impietate et ab scelere duxerit; avi servum corruptum praemiis ad accusandum dominum impulerit, a legatorum pedibus abduxerit.

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ante CAVB

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solebamus β (contra Mart. Cap. Rhet. L. p. 470)

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perturber γ

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crudelis Castor C1Vβ: crudelis Castor est C2AH: crudelem Castorem γ, Madvig

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discr. capitis γ

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debeat γ

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et scelere β

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local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:2

In the second place, I am compelled now to defend against a most atrocious accusation that very king whom I, in common with all the senate, used formerly to extol on account of his uninterrupted services towards our republic. There is this further consideration, that I am disturbed by the cruelty of one of the prosecutors, and by the unworthy conduct of the other. O cruel, not to say wicked and impious, Castor! a grandson, who has brought his grandfather into danger of his life, and has caused that man to dread his youth, whose old age he was bound to defend and protect; who has sought to recommend his entrance into life to our favour by impiety and wickedness; who has instigated his grandfather's slave, whom he corrupted by bribes, to accuse his master, and has carried him away from the feet of the king's ambassadors.

3 · Cicero

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fugitivi autem dominum accusantis et dominum absentem et dominum amicissimum nostrae rei publicae cum os videbam, cum verba audiebam, non tam adflictam regiam condicionem dolebam quam de fortunis communibus extimescebam. nam cum more maiorum de servo in dominum ne tormentis quidem quaeri liceat, in qua quaestione dolor elicere veram vocem possit etiam ab invito, exortus est servus qui, quem in eculeo appellare non posset, eum accuset solutus.

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cum verba audiebam om. DE

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possit CAV

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local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:3

But when I saw the countenance and heard the words of this runaway slave, accusing his master,—his absent master,—his master, who was a most devoted friend to our republic,—I did not feel so much grief at the depressed condition of the monarch himself, as fear for the general fortunes of every one. For though, according to the usage of our ancestors, it is not lawful to examine a slave as a witness against his master, not even by torture,—in which mode of examination pain might, perhaps, elicit the truth from a man even against his will,—a slave has arisen, who, without any compulsion, accuses him against whom he might not legally say a word even on the rack.

4 · Cicero

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perturbat me, C. Caesar, etiam illud interdum quod tamen, cum te penitus recognovi, timere desino: re enim iniquum est, sed tua sapientia fit aequissimum. nam dicere apud eum de facinore contra cuius vitam consilium facinoris inisse arguare, cum per se ipsum consideres, grave est; nemo enim fere est qui sui periculi iudex non sibi se aequiorem quam reo praebeat. sed tua, Caesar, praestans singularisque natura hunc mihi metum minuit. non enim tam timeo quid tu de rege Deiotaro, quam intellego quid de te ceteros velis iudicare.

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C. om. Cα

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cum si D (ante ras.) g

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:4

This thing also, O Caius Caesar, at times disturbs me; which, however, I cease to fear when I come to a complete recollection of your disposition. For in principle it is an unjust thing, but by your wisdom it becomes a most just one. For it is a serious business (if you consider the matter by itself) to speak concerning a crime before that man against whose life you are accused of having meditated that crime; for there is hardly anybody who, when he is a judge in any matter in which his own safety is at stake, does not act with more partiality towards himself than towards the accused person; but, O Caius Caesar, your admirable and extraordinary natural virtue to a great extent releases me from this fear. For I am not so much afraid what you may wish to decide with respect to king Deiotarus, as I am sure what you wish to decide in all other cases.

5 · Cicero

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moveor etiam loci ipsius insolentia, quod tantam causam quanta nulla umquam in disceptatione versata est dico intra domesticos parietes, dico extra conventum et eam frequentiam in qua oratorum studia niti solent: in tuis oculis, in tuo ore voltuque acquiesco, te unum intueor, ad te unum omnis spectat oratio: quae mihi ad spem obtinendae veritatis gravissima sunt, ad motum animi et ad omnem impetum dicendi contentionemque leviora.

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domesticos βa: om. Cαgh

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omnis mea β

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local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:5

I am affected, also, by the unusual circumstance of the trial in this place; because I am pleading so important a cause—one, the fellow of which has never been brought under discussion—within the walls of a private house; I am pleading it out of the hearing of any court or body of auditors, which are a great support and encouragement to an orator. I rest on nothing but your eyes, your person and countenance; I behold you alone; the whole of my speech is necessarily confined to you alone. And if those considerations are very important as regards my hope of establishing the truth, they for all that are impediments of the energy of my mind, and to the proper enthusiasm and ardour of speaking.

6 · Cicero

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hanc enim, C. Caesar, causam si in foro dicerem eodem audiente et disceptante te, quantam mihi alacritatem populi Romani concursus adferret! quis enim civis ei regi non faveret cuius omnem aetatem in populi Romani bellis consumptam esse meminisset? spectarem curiam, intuerer forum, caelum denique testarer ipsum. sic, cum et deorum immortalium et populi Romani et senatus beneficia in regem Deiotarum recordarer, nullo modo mihi deesse posset oratio.

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causam C. Caesar β

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ei regi aa: ei rei gh: regi β

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in regem Deiotarum αβa: in rege Deiotaro hg

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:6

For if, O Caius Caesar, I were pleading this cause in the forum, still having you for my auditor and my judge, with what great cheerfulness would the concourse of the Roman people inspire me! For what citizen would do otherwise than favour that king, the whole of whose life he would recollect had been spent in the wars of the Roman people? I should be beholding the senate-house, I should be surveying the forum, I should call the heaven above me itself to witness;—and so, while calling to mind the kindnesses of the immortal gods, and of the Roman people, and of the senate to king Deiotarus, it would be impossible for me to be at a loss for topics or armaments for my speech.

7 · Cicero

Original

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quae quoniam angustiora parietes faciunt actioque maximae causae debilitatur loco, tuum est, Caesar, qui pro multis saepe dixisti, quid mihi nunc animi sit ad te ipsum referre, quo facilius cum aequitas tua tum audiendi diligentia minuat hanc perturbationem meam. sed ante quam de accusatione ipsa dico, de accusatorum spe pauca dicam; qui cum videantur neque ingenio neque usu atque exercitatione rerum valere, tamen ad hanc causam non sine aliqua spe et cogitatione venerunt.

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nec... nec β

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:7

But since the walls of a house narrow, all these topics, and since the pleading of the cause is greatly crippled by the place, it behoves you, O Caesar, who have yourself often pleaded for many defendants, to consider within yourself what my feelings at present must be; so that your justice, and also your careful attention in listening to me, may the more easily lessen my natural agitation and anxiety. But before I say anything about the accusation itself, I will say a few words about the hopes entertained by the accusers. For though they appear to be possessed of no great skill or experience in affairs, nevertheless they have never, surely, undertaken this cause without some hope or other and some definite design.

8 · Cicero

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iratum te regi Deiotaro fuisse non erant nescii; adfectum illum quibusdam incommodis et detrimentis propter offensionem animi tui meminerant, teque cum huic iratum, tum sibi amicum esse cognoverant, quodque apud ipsum te de tuo periculo dicerent, fore putabant ut in exulcerato animo facile fictum crimen insideret. quam ob rem hoc nos primum metu, Caesar, per fidem et constantiam et clementiam tuam libera, ne residere in te ullam partem iracundiae suspicemur. per dexteram istam te oro quam regi Deiotaro hospes hospiti porrexisti, istam, inquam, dexteram non tam in bellis neque in proeliis quam in promissis et fide firmiorem. tu illius domum inire, tu vetus hospitium renovare voluisti; te eius di penates acceperunt, te amicum et placatum Deiotari regis arae focique viderunt.

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adfectum Hγ: adflictum Aβ

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teque... cognoverant del. Madvig: teque cum huic iratum, tum sibi Eberhard

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cumque β

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et per clem. β

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tam del. Manutius (contra Prisc. K. ii. 93)

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in om. β (contra Prisc.)

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:8

They were not ignorant that you were offended with king Deiotarus. They recollected that he had been already exposed to some inconvenience and loss on account of the displeasure with which you regarded him; and while they knew that you were angry with him, they had had proofs also that you were friendly to them. And as they would be speaking before you of a matter involving personal danger to yourself, they reckoned that a fictitious charge would easily lodge in your mind, which was already sore. Wherefore, O Caius Caesar, first of all by your good faith, and wisdom and firmness, and clemency deliver us from this fear, and prevent our suspecting that there is any ill-temper lurking in you. I entreat you by that right hand of yours which you pledged in token of everlasting friendship to king Deiotarus; by that right hand, I say, which is not more trustworthy in wars or in battles than in promises and pledges of good faith. You have chosen to enter his house, you have chosen to renew with him the ancient ties of friendship and hospitality. His household gods have received you under their protection; the altars and hearths of king Deiotarus have beheld you at peace with and friendly towards him.

9 · Cicero

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cum facile orari, Caesar, tum semel exorari soles. nemo umquam te placavit inimicus qui ullas resedisse in te simultatis reliquias senserit. quamquam cui sunt inauditae cum Deiotaro querelae tuae? numquam tu illum accusavisti ut hostem, sed ut amicum officio parum functum, quod propensior in Cn. Pompei amicitiam fuisset quam in tuam: cui tamen ipsi rei veniam te daturum fuisse dicebas, si tum auxilia Pompeio vel si etiam filium misisset, ipse aetatis excusatione usus esset.

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exorari γ

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tum dett. aliquot: cum αβag: tantum h

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ipse tamen β ita cum aah: itaque cum β: ita si cum g

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:9

You are accustomed, O Caius Caesar, not only to he prevailed upon by entreaties easily, but to he prevailed on once for all. No enemy has ever been reconciled to you who has found any remnant of hostility remaining in your breast afterwards. Although, who is there who has not heard of your complaints against king Deiotarus? You have never accused him as being an enemy to you, but as being a friend very slack in his duty, because his inclination led him more to friendships with Cnaeus Pompeius than with you. And yet that very fact you said that you would have pardoned, if when he sent reinforcements and even his son to Pompeius, he had himself availed himself of the excuse furnished him by his age.

10 · Cicero

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ita cum maximis eum rebus liberares, perparvam culpam relinquebas. itaque non solum in eum non animadvertisti sed omni metu liberavisti, hospitem agnovisti, regem reliquisti. neque enim ille odio tui progressus, sed errore communi lapsus est. is rex quem senatus hoc nomine saepe honorificentissimis decretis appellavisset, quique illum ordinem ab adulescentia gravissimum sanctissimumque duxisset, isdem rebus est perturbatus homo longinquus et alienigena quibus nos in media re publica nati semperque versati.

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perparvam in amicitia add. α: inimicitiae add. γ: amicitiae add. β: ego delevi

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progr. est γ

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quique cum illum β

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:10

And in this way, which you were acquitting him of the most important charges, you left behind only the little blame of his friendship for another. Therefore, you not only abstained from punishing him, but you released him from all apprehension; you acknowledged him as your friend, you left him king. And, indeed, his proceedings were not dictated by any hatred of you; he fell by the general error of us all. That king, whom the senate had repeatedly addressed by this name, using it in decrees most complimentary to him, and who from his youth up had always considered that order most important and most sacred, being a man living at a great distance, and a foreigner by birth, was perplexed by the same affairs which embarrassed us who were born and who at all times had lived in the middle of the republic.

11 · Cicero

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cum audiret senatus consentientis auctoritate arma sumpta, consulibus, praetoribus, tribunis plebis, nobis imperatoribus rem publicam defendendam datam, movebatur animo et vir huic imperio amicissimus de salute populi Romani extimescebat, in qua etiam suam esse inclusam videbat. in summo tamen timore quiescendum esse arbitrabatur. maxime vero perturbatus est, ut audivit consules ex Italia profugisse, omnis consularis—sic enim ei nuntiabatur—cunctum senatum, totam Italiam effusam. talibus enim nuntiis et rumoribus patebat ad orientem via nec ulli veri subsequebantur. nihil ille de condicionibus tuis, nihil de studio concordiae et pacis, nihil de conspiratione audiebat certorum hominum contra dignitatem tuam. quae cum ita essent, tamen usque eo se tenuit quoad a Cn. Pompeio legati ad eum litteraeque venerunt.

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sumpta esse γ

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nobis αD: novis BEγ

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esse αβ: ut sibi esset (-se g) γ

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omnis αg: omnisque βa: omnis et h

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ei nunt. enunt. β

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esse effusam β

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nulli veri nuntii γ

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certorum HBDE1: ceterorum AVE2γ

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leg. ad eum α: ad eum leg. βγ

Translation

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When he heard that men had taken arms by the authority of the senate, acting with great unanimity; that the defence of the republic had been entrusted to the consuls, the praetors, the tribunes of the people, and to all of us who had received the title of Imperator, he was agitated in his mind, and being a man most deeply attached to this empire, he became alarmed for the safety of the Roman people, in which also he considered that his own was bound up. And being in a state of the greatest alarm, he thought it best to remain quiet himself. But he was beyond measure agitated when he heard that the consuls had fled from Italy, and all the men of consular rank (for so it was reported) with them, and all the senate, and that the whole of Italy was emptied. For the road was wide open for all such messengers and reports to travel to the East, and no true accounts followed. He never heard a word of the conditions which you offered, nor of your eagerness for concord and peace, nor of the way in which certain men conspired against your dignity. And though this was the state of things, still he continued quiet until ambassadors and letters came to him from Cnaeus Pompeius.

12 · Cicero

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ignosce, ignosce, Caesar, si eius viri auctoritati rex Deiotarus cessit quem nos omnes secuti sumus; ad quem cum di atque homines omnia ornamenta congessissent, tum tu ipse plurima et maxima. nec enim, si tuae res gestae ceterorum laudibus obscuritatem attulerunt, idcirco Cn. Pompei memoriam amisimus. quantum nomen illius fuerit, quantae opes, quanta in omni genere bellorum gloria, quanti honores populi Romani, quanti senatus, quanti tui, quis ignorat? tanto ille superiores vicerat gloria quanto tu omnibus praestitisti. itaque Cn. Pompei bella, victorias, triumphos, consulatus admirantes numerabamus: tuos enumerare non possumus.

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in quem E2γ (contra Arusian. K. vii. p. 461)

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neque enim β

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eius β

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quanto... tanto β (contra Serv. Aen. xi. 438)

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omnibus Aβ: in omnibus VE2γ: omnia H

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:12

Pardon Deiotarus, pardon him, I entreat you, O Caesar, if he, though a king, yielded to the authority of that man whom we all followed, and on whom both gods and men had heaped every sort of distinction, and on whom you yourself had conferred the most numerous and most important honours of all. Nor indeed, does it follow that, because your exploits have thrown a cloud over the praises of others, we have, therefore, entirely lost all recollection of Cnaeus Pompeius. Who is there who is ignorant how great the name of that man was, how great his influence, how great his renown in every description of war, how great were the honours paid him by the Roman people, and by the senate, and by you yourself? He had surpassed all his predecessors in glory as much as you have surpassed all the world. Therefore, we used to count up with admiration the wars, and the victories, and the triumphs, and the consulship; of Cnaeus Pompeius. But yours we are wholly unable to reckon.

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For Caesar had given Pompey his daughter in marriage.

13 · Cicero

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ad eum igitur rex Deiotarus venit hoc misero fatalique bello quem antea iustis hostilibusque bellis adiuverat, quocum erat non hospitio solum verum etiam familiaritate coniunctus, et venit vel rogatus ut amicus, vel arcessitus ut socius, vel evocatus ut is qui senatui parere didicisset: postremo venit ut ad fugientem, non ut ad insequentem, id est ad periculi, non ad victoriae societatem. itaque Pharsalico proelio facto a Pompeio discessit; spem infinitam persequi noluit; vel officio si quid debuerat, vel errori si quid nescierat, satis factum esse duxit; domum se contulit, teque Alexandrinum bellum gerente utilitatibus tuis paruit.

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evocatus γ: vocatus αβ

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non ut ad αa: non ad βh: non ut g

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periculi αBDa: -culum Egh

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:13

To him then came king Deiotarus in this miserable and fatal war, to him whom he had previously assisted in his regular wars against the enemies of Rome, and with whom he was bound, not only by ties of hospitality, but also by personal intimacy. And he came, either because he had been asked, as a friend; or because he had been sent for as an ally; or because he had been summoned, like one who had learnt to obey the senate; and last of all, he came as to a man flying, not to one pursuing others—that is to say, as a sharer of danger, not a partner in victory. Therefore, after the result of the battle of Pharsalia, he departed from Pompeius; he did not choose to persist in hopes of which he saw no end. He thought he had done quite enough to satisfy the claims of duty, if indeed he was under any such obligations, and that he had made quite mistake enough if he had ignorantly erred. He returned home; and all the time that you were engaged in the Alexandrian war, he consulted your interests.

14 · Cicero

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ille exercitum Cn. Domiti, amplissimi viri, suis tectis et copiis sustentavit; ille Ephesum ad eum quem tu ex tuis fidelissimum et probatissimum omnibus delegisti pecuniam misit; ille iterum, ille tertio auctionibus factis pecuniam dedit qua ad bellum uterere; ille corpus suum periculo obiecit, tecumque in acie contra Pharnacem fuit tuumque hostem esse duxit suum. quae quidem a te in eam partem accepta sunt, Caesar, ut eum amplissimo regis honore et nomine adfeceris.

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ex civibus fid. γ

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et probat. om. γ (et prob. omnibus del. Garat.)

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uterere αDE: -ris B: -remini γ

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:14

He supported in his palaces and from his own resources the army of Cnaeus Domitius, that most distinguished man. He sent money to Ephesus to him whom you selected as the most faithful and most highly esteemed of all your friends. He gave him money a second time; he gave him money a third time for you to employ in the war, though be was forced to sell property by auction in order to raise it. He exposed his own person to danger and he was with you, serving in your army against Pharnaces, and he considered him as his own enemy because he was yours. And all those actions of his were accepted by you, O Caius Caesar, in such a spirit that you paid him the highest possible honours, and confirmed hint in the dignity and title of king.

15 · Cicero

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is igitur non modo a te periculo liberatus sed etiam honore amplissimo ornatus, arguitur domi te suae interficere voluisse: quod tu, nisi eum furiosissimum iudicas, suspicari profecto non potes. ut enim omittam cuius tanti sceleris fuerit in conspectu deorum penatium necare hospitem, cuius tantae importunitatis omnium gentium atque omnis memoriae clarissimum lumen exstinguere, cuius ferocitatis victorem orbis terrae non extimescere, cuius tam inhumani et ingrati animi, a quo rex appellatus esset, in eo tyrannum inveniri—ut haec omittam, cuius tanti furoris fuit omnis reges, quorum multi erant finitimi, omnis liberos populos, omnis socios, omnis provincias, omnia denique omnium arma contra se unum excitare? quonam ille modo cum regno, cum domo, cum coniuge, cum carissimo filio distractus esset, tanto scelere non modo perfecto sed etiam cogitato?

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te hoc loco hab. αβ, ante domi (domui a) γ, post suae Cassiod. ii. 543, Mart. Cap. Rhet. L. p. 468

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iudices β

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prof. suspicari γ

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cuius tantae a

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terrae α: terrarum βγ

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animi om. α

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omnis socios, omnis lib. pop. γ

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quonam BDg: quoniam Cαah: quomodo E

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cum domo om. γ

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carissimo CαDE: clarissimo Bγ

Translation

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He, therefore, having been not only released from danger by you, but having been also distinguished by you with the highest honours, is now accused of having intended to assassinate you in his own house—a thing which you cannot in truth possibly suspect, unless you consider him to have been utterly mad. For, to say nothing of what a deed of enormous wickedness it would have been to assassinate his guest in the sight of his own household gods; what a deed of enormous unreasonableness it would have been to have extinguished the brightest light of all nations, and of all human recollection; what a deed of enormous ferocity it would have been to have had no dread of the conqueror of the whole earth; what a sign of an inhuman and ungrateful disposition it would have been to be found to behave like a despot to the very man by whom be had been addressed as a king;—to say nothing of all this, what a deed of utter frenzy would it have been to rouse all kings, of whom there were numbers on the borders of his own kingdom, all free nations, all the allies, all the provinces, all the arms, in short, of every people on earth against himself alone! To what misery would he not have exposed his kingdom, his house, his wife, and his beloved son, not merely by the accomplishment of such a crime, but even by the bare idea of it!

16 · Cicero

Original

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at, credo, haec homo inconsultus et temerarius non videbat. quis consideratior illo, quis tectior, quis prudentior? quamquam hoc loco Deiotarum non tam ingenio et prudentia quam fide et religione vitae defendendum puto. nota tibi est hominis probitas, C. Caesar, noti mores, nota constantia. cui porro qui modo populi Romani nomen audivit, Deiotari integritas, gravitas, virtus, fides non audita est? quod igitur facinus nec in hominem imprudentem caderet propter metum praesentis exiti, nec in facinerosum, nisi esset idem amentissimus, id vos et a viro optimo et ab homine minime stulto cogitatum esse confingitis?

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tectior CαD1: rectior D2BEγ

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sit audita β

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prudentem Cα

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caderet CHVγ: cadere A: cadere posset β

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local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:16

But I suppose that improvident and rash man did not see all this! On the contrary, who is a more considerate than he? Who is more secret in his plans? Who is more prudent? Although in this place it is not so much on the ground of cleverness and prudence that it seems to me that I should defend Deiotarus, as on that of good faith and religious feeling and conduct. You are well acquainted, O Caius Caesar, with the honesty of the man, with his virtuous habits, with his wisdom and firmness. Indeed, who is there who has ever heard of the name of the Roman people, who has not heard also of the integrity, and wisdom, and virtue, and good faith of Deiotarus? A crime, then, that cannot be imputed to an imprudent man, on account of his fear of instant destruction, nor to an unscrupulous man, unless he be at the same time utterly insane; will you pretend that such a crime was thought of by a most virtuous man, and one too who was never accounted a fool?

17 · Cicero

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at quam non modo non credibiliter, sed ne suspiciose quidem! cum inquit Blucium venisses et domum regis hospitis tui devertisses, locus erat quidam in quo erant ea composita quibus te rex munerari constituerat. huc te e balneo, prius quam accumberes, ducere volebat. erant enim armati ut te interficerent in eo ipso loco conlocati. en crimen, en causa, cur regem fugitivus, dominum servus accuset. ego mehercules, Caesar, initio, cum est ad me ita causa delata, Phidippum medicum, servum regium, qui cum legatis missus esset, ab isto adulescente esse corruptum, hac sum suspicione percussus: medicum indicem subornavit; finget videlicet aliquod crimen veneni. etsi a veritate longe, tamen a consuetudine criminandi non multum res abhorrebat.

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atque non γ

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inquit Cα: in castellum (ex § 21) add. βγ

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Blucium Garat.: Reium Wagner: Luceium (Lucc. CH) codd. (cf. Strab. xii. 5. 2)

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munerari Cα: -rare βγ

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balineo CA, ita § 21 CA (ter) et § 42 CH

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ibi enim erant β

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qui te β

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mehercule γ, cf. Mil. 85

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ita Müller: ista codd.

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Phidippum β: Philippum Cαγ

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ab ipso β

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percussus CHVβgh: perculsus Aa

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fingit gh

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:17

And in what a way do you try and support this invention! in a way not only not calculated to win belief, but not even such as to, give rise to the least suspicion. When, says the prosecutor, you had come to the Luceian fort, and had turned aside to the palace of the king your entertainer, there certain place where all those things were arranged which the king had settled to offer you as presents. To this place he intended to conduct you on coming out of the bath, before you lay down; for there were armed men stationed in that very place on purpose to kill you. This is the charge; this is the reason why a runaway should accuse a monarch, a slave accuse his master! I, in truth, O Caius Caesar, at the very beginning, when the cause was originally laid before me, was struck with a suspicion that Philippus, the physician, one of the king's slaves, who had been sent with the ambassadors, had been corrupted by that young man. He has suborned the physician to act as informer, thought I; he will be sure to invent some accusation of poisoning. Although my conjecture was some way from the exact truth, it was not much out as to the general principle of the accusation. What says the physician?

18 · Cicero

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quid ait medicus? nihil de veneno. at id fieri potuit primum occultius in potione, in cibo; deinde etiam impunius fit quod, cum est factum, negari potest. si palam te interemisset, omnium in se gentium non solum odia sed etiam arma convertisset: si veneno, Iovis illius hospitalis numen numquam celare potuisset, homines fortasse celasset. quod igitur et conari occultius et efficere cautius potuit, id tibi et medico callido et servo, ut putabat, fideli non credidit: de armis, de ferro, de insidiis celare te noluit?

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primo β

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vel in cibo γ: del. Kayser

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quod cum est factum quicquid cum est Cα

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illius a: illius quidem cett.: ille quidem Ernesti

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:18

Not a word about poison. But in the first place, that might have been administered much more a in a potion or in food; in the second place, a crime is committed in that way with greater impunity, because when it has been done, it can be denied. If he had assassinated you openly, he would have brought upon himself not only the hatred of all nations, but their arms also. If he had slain you by poison, to be sure he never would have been able to conceal the action from the divine wrath of the Jupiter who presides over hospitality, but he might perhaps have concealed it from men. Are we, then, to suppose that that which he might have attempted in secret and have executed with great caution, he never entrusted to you who were a skillful physician, and, as he believed, a faithful servant and yet that he could conceal nothing from you with respect to arms and blood, and ambuscade? And how cleverly is the whole nation worked up!

19 · Cicero

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at quam festive crimen contexitur! tua te inquit eadem quae saepe fortuna servavit: negavisti tum te inspicere velle. quid postea? an Deiotarus, re illo tempore non perfecta, continuo dimisit exercitum? nullus erat alius insidiandi locus? at eodem te, cum cenavisses, rediturum dixeras, itaque fecisti. Horam unam aut duas eodem loco armatos, ut conlocati fuerant, retineri magnum fuit? cum in convivio comiter et iucunde fuisses, tum illuc isti, ut dixeras: quo in loco Deiotarum talem erga te cognovisti qualis rex Attalus in P. Africanum fuit, cui magnificentissima dona, ut scriptum legimus, usque ad Numantiam misit ex Asia, quae Africanus inspectante exercitu accepit. quod cum praesens Deiotarus regio animo et more fecisset, tu in cubiculum discessisti.

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quae semper β

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re illo... perfecta CαBD: rex illo... perfecta re Eγ

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retineri CA: retine H: retinere cett.

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illuc illuc istum C1: istum illuc H

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P. Afr. Cα

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regio gh: et Cα: et regio a: regio et β

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:19

It was your own good fortune, says he that fortune which always preserves you, which saved you then. You said that you did not wish at that moment to see the presents. What happened afterwards? Did Deiotarus, after he had failed in accomplishing the business at that time, at once dismiss his army? was there no other place where he could set an ambush? But you said that when you had supped you would come back again the same way; and you did so. Was it a very difficult job to detain the armed men one or two hours in the place where they had been stationed? After you had spent your time at the banquet courteously and merrily, then you went back that way, as you had said; and then and there you found that the behaviour of Deiotarus to you resembled that of king Attalus to Publius Africanus to whom, as we have read, he sent the most magnificent gifts from Asia to Numantia; which Africanus accepted in the sight of all his army. And when Deiotarus, being present with you, had done all this in a kingly spirit and with royal courtesy, you departed to your chamber.

20 · Cicero

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obsecro, Caesar, repete illius temporis memoriam, pone ante oculos illum diem, voltus hominum te intuentium atque admirantium recordare. num quae trepidatio, num qui tumultus, num quid nisi modeste, nisi quiete, nisi ex hominis gravissimi et sanctissimi disciplina? quid igitur causae excogitari potest cur te lautum voluerit, cenatum noluerit occidere?

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illum ante oculos β

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quae (qua a)... qui CHβa: quid... quid AVg: ei quã... quid h (quid trepidationis coni Halm)

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modeste β: modo Cα: moderate γ

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:20

I entreat you, O Caesar, trace back your recollection of that time, bring that day back before your eyes, remember the countenances of the men who were then gazing on you and admiring you; was there any trepidation among them? any disorder? Was anything done except in an orderly and quiet manner,—except as became the establishment of a dignified and honourable man? What reason then can be imagined why he should have intended to murder you after you had bathed, and why he should not have chosen to do so after you had supped?

21 · Cicero

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in posterum inquit diem distulit ut, cum in castellum ventum esset, ibi cogitata perficeret. non video causam loci mutandi, sed tamen acta res criminose est. cum inquit vomere post cenam te velle dixisses, in balneum te ducere coeperunt: ibi enim erant insidiae. at te eadem tua fortuna servavit: in cubiculo malle dixisti. di te perduint, fugitive! ita non modo nihili et improbus, sed fatuus et amens es. quid? ille signa aenea in balneo posuerat, quae e balneo in cubiculum transire non possent? habes crimina insidiarum: nihil enim dixit amplius. horum inquit eram conscius. quid tum? ita ille demens erat ut eum quem conscium tanti sceleris habebat ab se dimitteret, Romam etiam mitteret ubi et inimicissimum sciret esse nepotem suum et C. Caesarem cui fecisset insidias, praesertim cum is unus esset qui posset de absente se indicare?

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castellum Luceium (Lucc. H) add. codd., ego delevi, cf. § 17

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mut. loci β

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eadem tua Cαβ: illa tua g: eadem tua illa ah

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in cubiculum (-lo D1) te ire malle βa

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perduint BD: -dunt CHVE: -dent A: -dant γ

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non ita Cα

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nihili et scripsi: nihil sed D1: nequam et D2γ: om. αBE

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improbus et fatuus, sed etiam (eiam D1) amens β

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in balneo α: in insidiis (in sup. lin. in β) βγ

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haberet γ

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Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:21

“Oh, he put it off,” says the prosecutor, “till the next day, in order that when he arrived at the Luceian fort, he might there put his designs in execution.”I do not understand the effect of his changing the place; but still the whole case was conducted in an incriminatory manner. “When,” says the prosecutor, “you said after supper that you wished to vomit, they began to lead you to the bath-room; for that was the place where the ambuscade was; but still that same fortune of yours saved you; you said that you had rather go to your bedroom.” May the gods forgive you, you run-away slave! Are you so utterly, not only worthless and infamous, but also stupid and senseless? What? were they brazen statues that he had planted in ambush, so that they could not be moved from the bath-room to the bed-chamber? Here you have the whole charge as to the ambuscade: for he said nothing further. “In all this,” says he, “I was his accomplice.” What do you mean? Was he so demented as to allow a man to leave him who was privy to so enormous a wickedness? As even to send him to Rome, where he knew his grandson was, who was most bitterly hostile to him, and where Caius Caesar was, against whom he had laid this plot? especially when he was the only man who could give any information against him in his absence.

22 · Cicero

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et fratres meos, inquit, quod erant conscii, in vincla coniecit. cum igitur eos vinciret quos secum habebat, te solutum Romam mittebat qui eadem scires quae illos scire dicis? reliqua pars accusationis duplex fuit: una regem in speculis semper fuisse, cum a te animo esset alieno, altera exercitum eum contra te magnum comparasse. de exercitu dicam breviter, ut cetera. numquam eas copias rex Deiotarus habuit quibus inferre bellum populo Romano posset, sed quibus finis suos ab excursionibus et latrociniis tueretur et imperatoribus nostris auxilia mitteret. atque antea quidem maiores copias alere poterat; nunc exiguas vix tueri potest.

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vincla CαD: vincula cett. (ita l. 14)

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coegit Cα

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in spec. semp. fu. Cαh: in spec. fu. semp. ag: semp. in spec. fu. β

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esset animo β

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latroc. hostium γ

Translation

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“My brothers too,” says he, “because they also were privy to it he threw into prison.” When, then, he was putting those men in prison whom he had with him, did he leave you at large and send you to Rome,—you who knew the very same facts which you say that they knew? The remainder of the accusation was of a twofold character; one part of which was, that the king was always in his watch-tower because he was so disaffected to your interests; the other, that he had levied a large army against you. As to the army, I will reply to that charge in a very few words, as I will to the rest of the charges. King Deiotarus never had any forces with which he could have made war upon the Roman people; but only just sufficient to protect his own territories from the incursions of enemies, and to send reinforcements to our generals. And before this time he was able to maintain a larger force than he can now; at present he can with difficulty keep up a very small one.

23 · Cicero

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at misit ad nescio quem Caecilium: sed eos quos misit, quod ire noluerunt, in vincla coniecit. non quaero quam veri simile sit aut non habuisse regem quos mitteret aut eos qui missi essent non paruisse, aut, qui dicto audientes in tanta re non fuissent, eos vinctos potius quam necatos. sed tamen cum ad Caecilium mittebat, utrum causam illam victam esse nesciebat an Caecilium istum magnum hominem putabat? quem profecto is qui optime nostros homines novit vel quia non nosset vel si nosset, contemneret.

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ad Caec. nescio quem β

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non sit γ veri simile sit aut] verissiles itaut C: veris si lesit aut H: simile sit veri A

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non ante habuisse del. Cardenus

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quos misisset β

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audientes CαDag: obaud. h: obed. BE

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:23

“Oh, but he sent to Caecilius; I don't know who it was he sent, but he threw those whom he sent or rather ordered to go, into prison, because they would not go.” I do not stop to ask how far it is probable that a king should have had no one to send; or that those whom he ordered to go should not have obeyed him; or how it was that those men who refused obedience in so important an affair, were put in prison, and not executed; but still, when he was sending to Caecilius, was he ignorant that that party had been defeated, or did he think that Caecilius a person of great importance? a man whom he, who was well acquainted with our leading men, would have despised because he knew him, and just as much because he did not know him.

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This was Quintius Caecilius Brassus, a zealous partisan of Pompey's, who after the battle of Pharsalia collected some of the remnants of his army in Syria, with which he afterwards joined Cassius after the death of Caesar.

24 · Cicero

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addit etiam illud, equites non optimos misisse. credo, Caesar, nihil ad tuum equitatum, sed misit ex eis quos habuit electos. ait nescio quem ex eo numero servum iudicatum. non arbitror, non audivi: sed in eo, etiam si accidisset, culpam regis nullam fuisse arbitrarer. alieno autem a te animo quo modo? speravit, credo, difficilis tibi Alexandreae fore exitus propter regionum naturam et fluminis. at eo tempore ipso pecuniam dedit, exercitum aluit, ei quem Asiae praefeceras nulla in re defuit; tibi victori non solum ad hospitium sed ad periculum etiam atque ad aciem praesto fuit.

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credo gh: veteris credo (-es. Credo a) Cαβa (voc. veteris ex veri l. 15 repetitum videtur)

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ait etiam Cαa

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Alexandriae mei

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in om. β

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etiam atque ad (ad om. V) aciem CHVag: etiam atque etiam A: etiam et ad om. β

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:24

He added, also, that he did not send his best cavalry;—I dare say, they were old troops, O Caesar: nothing to your cavalry; but still they were the best men he had, his picked men. He says, that one of the body was recognised as being a slave;—I do not believe it; I never heard of it. But still, even if such a thing had happened, I should not conceive that that was any fault of the king's. “He was very ill-disposed towards you.” How so? He hoped, I suppose, that you would find it difficult to get out of Alexandria, on account of the nature of the country and of the river. But, at that very time, he supplied you with money, and with provisions for your army; he cooperated to the utmost of his power with the officer to whom you had given command in Asia; he assisted you when victorious, not only in the way of affording you hospitality, but with you he encountered danger, and stood by your side in the array of battle.

25 · Cicero

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secutum bellum est Africanum. graves de te rumores, qui etiam furiosum illum Caecilium excitaverunt. quo tum rex animo, qui auctionatus sit seseque spoliare maluerit quam tibi pecuniam non subministrare. at eo inquit tempore ipso Nicaeam Ephesumque mittebat qui rumores Africanos exciperent et celeriter ad se referrent. itaque cum esset ei nuntiatum Domitium naufragio perisse, te in castello circumsederi, de Domitio dixit versum Graecum eadem sententia qua etiam nos habemus Latinum: pereant amici, dum inimici una intercidant. quod ille, si tibi esset inimicissimus, numquam tamen dixisset: ipse enim mansuetus, versus immanis. qui autem Domitio poterat esse amicus, qui tibi esset inimicus? tibi porro inimicus cur esset a quo, cum vel interfici belli lege potuisset, regem et se et filium suum constitutos esse meminisset?

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rumores sparsi E2γ

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animo Cα: fuit add. β: erga te fuit add. γ

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spoliare CHβ: exspol. AVa

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tibi esset Cα: esset tibi βγ

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potuisset et inposuisset C: et potuisset H: fort. et iure potuisset

Translation

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The African war followed: there were unfavourable reports spread about you, which also roused that frantic Caecilius. What on that occasion was the disposition evinced towards you by the king? He sold property by auction, and preferred stripping himself to not supplying you with money. “But,” says the prosecutor, “at that very time he was sending men to Nicaea, and to Ephesus, to catch every report that came from Africa, and to bring it to him with all speed.” Therefore, when news came that Domitius had perished by shipwreck, and that you were blockaded in some fortress, he quoted a Greek verse with reference to Domitius, having the same meaning as that of our poet: So can we well afford to lose our friends, If our foes perish in the same destruction: an expression which he would never have uttered had he been ever so much an enemy to you. For he himself is a man of a humane disposition; and that verse is a savage one. Besides, how could a man be a friend to Domitius, who was an enemy to you? Moreover, why should he be an enemy to you, by whom he might even have been put to death according to the laws of war, and by whom he recollected that he and his son had been appointed kings?

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The Greek proverb is given by Plutarch as e)rre/tw fi/los so\n e)/xqrw|. If the Latin iambic quoted by Cicero comes from any Latin poet, it is not known who he was.

26 · Cicero

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quid deinde? furcifer quo progreditur? ait hac laetitia Deiotarum elatum vino se obruisse in convivioque nudum saltavisse. quae crux huic fugitivo potest satis supplici adferre? Deiotarum saltantem quisquam aut ebrium vidit umquam? omnes sunt in illo rege virtutes, quod te, Caesar, ignorare non arbitror, sed praecipue singularis et admiranda frugalitas: etsi hoc verbo scio laudari reges non solere. Frugi hominem dici non multum habet laudis in rege: fortem, iustum, severum, gravem, magni animi, largum, beneficum, liberalem: hae sunt regiae laudes, illa privata est. ut volet quisque, accipiat: ego tamen frugalitatem, id est modestiam et temperantiam, virtutem maximam iudico. haec in illo est ab ineunte aetate cum a cuncta Asia, cum a magistratibus legatisque nostris, tum ab equitibus Romanis qui in Asia negotiati sunt perspecta et cognita.

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in convivio nudumque AV

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se salt. C

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magni animi CαBD: magnianimum σ: magnanimum Eh

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hae CAVβh: haec Hag (cf. Phil. v. 8)

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aetate hic defic. gh (ex hoc loc. γ = aσ)

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:26

What is the next statement? What is the next step taken by this scoundrel? He says that Deiotarus was so elated at this, that he drowned his joy in wine, and danced naked at a banquet. What cross is there that could be a sufficient punishment for this slave? Did any one ever see Deiotarus dancing,—did any one ever see him drunk? All kingly virtues are united in that man, and that I think yourself are well aware of, O Caesar; but most especially is that singular and admirable economy of his conspicuous. Although this is an attribute for which I know that it is not usual to praise kings. To say that a man is economical is not much praise for a king. To be brave, just, severe, dignified, magnanimous, open-handed, beneficent liberal—these are the praises suited to a king. Economy is a virtue for a private individual. Let every one take it as he pleases: but I consider economy—that is to say, moderation and temperance—the very greatest of virtues. And this existed in this man from his earliest youth, and was experienced by, and known to, all Asia, and by all our magistrates and ambassadors, and by all the Roman knights who trafficked in Asia.

27 · Cicero

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multis ille quidem gradibus officiorum erga rem publicam nostram ad hoc regium nomen ascendit; sed tamen quicquid a bellis populi Romani vacabat, cum hominibus nostris consuetudines, amicitias, res rationesque iungebat, ut non solum tetrarches nobilis sed etiam optimus pater familias et diligentissimus agricola et pecuarius haberetur. qui igitur adulescens nondum tanta gloria praeditus nihil umquam nisi severissime et gravissime fecerit, is ea existimatione eaque aetate saltavit?

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ille quidem CHσ: quidem ille AVβa

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amicitias res rationes om. Cα

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etiam βa: om. Cασ

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et dil. dil. Cα

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It was by many successive steps of dutiful service towards our republic that he arrived at this title of king; but still, whatever leisure he had from the wars of the Roman people, he devoted entirely to cultivating friendship and intimacy with our citizens, and to uniting his affairs and interests to theirs. So that he was not only considered a noble tetrarch, but also an excellent father of a family, and a most industrious farmer and grazier. Did he, then, who, while a young man, before he had arrived at his subsequent high rank, never did anything that was inconsistent with the most rigid virtue and the greatest dignity, after he had raised to himself the esteem in which he is now held, and when he had become of so advanced an age, did he dance?

28 · Cicero

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imitari, Castor, potius avi mores disciplinamque debebas quam optimo et clarissimo viro fugitivi ore male dicere. quod si saltatorem avum habuisses neque eum virum unde pudoris pudicitiaeque exempla peterentur, tamen hoc maledictum minime in illam aetatem conveniret. quibus ille studiis ab ineunte aetate se imbuerat, non saltandi, sed bene ut armis, optime ut equis uteretur, ea tamen illum cuncta iam aetate defecerant. itaque Deiotarum cum plures in equum sustulissent, quod haerere in eo senex posset, admirari solebamus: hic vero adulescens qui meus in Cilicia miles, in Graecia commilito fuit, cum in illo nostro exercitu equitaret cum suis delectis equitibus quos una cum eo ad Pompeium pater miserat, quos concursus facere solebat, quam se iactare, quam ostentare, quam nemini in illa causa studio et cupiditate concedere!

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Translation

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You ought, O Castor, rather to imitate the manner and principles of your grandfather, than calumniate a most virtuous and most illustrious man with the language of a runaway slave. Even if you had had a grandfather who was a dancer, and not a man from whom examples of modesty and chastity might be derived, still this reproach is one which is very little suited to your age. Those pursuits to which he had been habituated from his earliest age—not dancing, but such as would train him to wield his arms and manage his horses in the best manner,—those all had now failed him at his advanced time of life; so that we used to wonder, when several men had lifted Deiotarus on his horse, how so old a man as he could contrive to stick on. But this young man, who was a soldier of mine in Cilicia, and a comrade of mine in Greece, how was he used to ride about in that army of ours, with his own picked body of cavalry, whom his father had sent with him to join Pompeius! what gallops he used to take; how he used to display his skill! What a parade he used to make! How did he refuse to yield to any one in his zeal and eagerness for the success of that cause!

29 · Cicero

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tum vero exercitu amisso ego, qui pacis semper auctor, post Pharsalicum autem proelium suasor fuissem armorum non ponendorum, sed abiciendorum, hunc ad meam auctoritatem non potui adducere, quod et ipse ardebat studio illius belli et patri satis faciendum arbitrabatur. felix ista domus quae non impunitatem solum adepta sit sed etiam accusandi licentiam: calamitosus Deiotarus qui et ab eo qui in isdem castris fuerit, et non modo apud te sed etiam a suis accusetur! vos vestra secunda fortuna, Castor, non potestis sine propinquorum calamitate esse contenti?

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tum scripsi: cum codd.

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auctor Cασ: auctor fui BDa

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autem om. BE

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post Pharsal. aut. proelium del. Ernesti

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ponendorum Cαa: depon. βσ

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ipsius β

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faciendum Cαa: fac. esse βσ

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accus. etiam β

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eisdem Cα

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et ante non modo om. β

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non modo apud te sed etiam del. Halm

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Castor om. AV

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:29

But even after the army was lost, I, who had at all times been an adviser of peace, but who, after the battle of Pharsalia, urged every one not to lay aside, but to throw away their arms, could never bring this young man to adopt my advice, both because of his own eagerness for that war, and because he thought himself bound to satisfy the expectations of his father. Happy is that house which has obtained, not only impunity, but licence to accuse others! Unfortunate Deiotarus, who is not only accused by one who was in the same camp with him, before you, but who is impeached even by his own relations. Cannot you, O Castor, be content with your own good fortune without bringing misery on your relations?

30 · Cicero

Original

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sint sane inimicitiae, quae esse non debebant—rex enim Deiotarus vestram familiam abiectam et obscuram e tenebris in lucem evocavit: quis tuum patrem ante quis esset quam cuius gener esset audivit?—sed quamvis ingrate et impie necessitudinis nomen repudiaretis, tamen inimicitias hominum more gerere poteratis, non ficto crimine insectari, non expetere vitam, non capitis arcessere. esto: concedatur haec quoque acerbitatis et odi magnitudo: adeone ut omnia vitae salutisque communis atque etiam humanitatis iura violentur? servum sollicitare verbis, spe promissisque corrumpere, abducere domum, contra dominum armare, hoc est non uni propinquo, sed omnibus familiis nefarium bellum indicere. nam ista corruptela servi si non modo impunita fuerit sed etiam a tanta auctoritate approbata, nulli parietes nostram salutem, nullae leges, nulla iura custodient. Vbi enim id quod intus est atque nostrum impune evolare potest contraque nos pugnare, fit in dominatu servitus, in servitute dominatus.

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ante Cαa: antea βσ

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gener C2AVγ: genere C1Hβ

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repudiaretis (ex -itis D) β: -ritis Cαγ

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acerbitatis CHVβa: acerbitas Aσ

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abducere Cαa: adducere βσ

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in serv. βσ: et in serv. Cαa

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:30

Grant that there may be enmity between you; which, however, there ought not to be; for it was king Deiotarus who raised your family, when abject and obscure, from darkness into light. Who ever heard of your father, or who he was, before they heard whose son-in-law he was? But even supposing you repudiated the name of the connection with ever so much ingratitude and impiety, still you might have conducted your quarrel like a man, and not pursue him with a false accusation, not seek his life, not prosecute him on a capital charge. Be it so:—let even this excess of bitterness and hatred be permitted. Was it to go to such an extent that all the laws of ordinary life and of common safety, and even of humanity, are to be violated? to tamper with slaves by words, to corrupt them by hopes and promises; to lead them away to your own house, to arm them against their master, to wage an impious war not against one relation, but against every family in the world? For that corruption of slaves, if it be not only unpunished, but even approved by such a great authority as that of this tribunal, no walls, no laws, no rights will be sufficient for the protection of our safety. For when that which is in our houses and is our own can sally out with impunity and fight against us, slavery then gets the mastery, and the master's position is slavery.

31 · Cicero

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O tempora, o mores! Cn. Domitius ille quem nos pueri consulem, censorem, pontificem maximum vidimus, cum tribunus plebis M. Scaurum principem civitatis in iudicium populi vocavisset Scaurique servus ad eum clam domum venisset et crimina in dominum delaturum se esse dixisset, prendi hominem iussit ad Scaurumque deduci. vide quid intersit, etsi inique Castorem cum Domitio comparo: sed tamen ille inimico servum remisit, tu ab avo abduxisti; ille incorruptum audire noluit, tu corrupisti; ille adiutorem servum contra dominum repudiavit, tu etiam accusatorem adhibuisti. at semel iste est corruptus a vobis.

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prendi Cαa: apprehendi (adprendi D) βσ

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comparo βσ et Priscian. K. ii. 239: confero Cαa

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iste est corr. CHβσ: est corr. iste AVa

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:31

Shame on the times, and on our present habits! That Cnaeus Domitius, whom we as boys saw consul, and censor and chief pontiff, when, as tribune of the people, he had impeached Marcus Scaurus, the chief man of the state, before the people, and when a slave of Scaurus had come secretly to him at his own house, and had offered to give information with respect to charges which might he brought against his master ordered the slave to be apprehended, and taken to Scaurus. See what a difference there is now,—although it is a shame of me to compare Castor to Domitius; still, he sent his slave back to his enemy, you have seduced one from your grandfather; he refused to listen to one though he had not been bribed, you have bribed one; he rejected a slave as his assistant against his master, you have employed one even as an accuser. But was it only once that that fellow was corrupted by you?

32 · Cicero

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nonne, cum esset perductus et cum tecum fuisset, refugit ad legatos? nonne ad hunc Cn. Domitium venit? nonne audiente hoc Ser. Sulpicio, clarissimo viro, qui tum casu apud Domitium cenabat, et hoc T. Torquato, optimo adulescente, se a te corruptum, tuis promissis in fraudem impulsum esse confessus est? quae est ista tam impotens, tam crudelis, tam immoderata inhumanitas? idcirco in hanc urbem venisti ut huius urbis iura et exempla corrumperes domesticaque immanitate nostrae civitatis humanitatem inquinares?

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perductus CαDγ: productus BE

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tam impudens BE

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inhumanitate BE

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:32

Did he not escape back again to the ambassadors after he had been brought forward by you, and after he had been with you? Did he not even come to Caius Cnaeus Domitius? Did not he, in the hearing of this Servius Sulpicius that most illustrious man, who is present here, and of this Titus Torquatus, a most virtuous young man, who is also present, confess that he had been bribed by you, and that it was by your promises that he had been instigated to this dishonesty? What then is the object of this shameless, and barbarous, and unrestrained inhumanity? Was it for this that you came into this city, that you might corrupt the principles predominant in, and the examples furnished by this city, and that you might pollute the humanity of our state by your own private ferocity?

33 · Cicero

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at quam acute conlecta crimina! Blesamius inquit,—eius enim nomine, optimi viri nec tibi ignoti, male dicebat tibi—ad regem inquit scribere solebat te in invidia esse, tyrannum existimari, statua inter reges posita animos hominum vehementer offensos, plaudi tibi non solere. nonne intellegis, Caesar, ex urbanis malevolorum sermunculis haec ab istis esse conlecta? Blesamius tyrannum Caesarem scriberet? multorum enim capita civium viderat, multos iussu Caesaris vexatos, verberatos, necatos, multas adflictas et eversas domos, armatis militibus refertum forum! quae semper in civili victoria sensimus, ea te victore non vidimus.

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nomine optimi viri H, Prisc. K. iii. 325: hominis nom. opt. viri CAV: nom. opt. hominis β: nom. viri opt. γ

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inquit om. unus cod. Halmii (cf. Phil. viii. 27) in invidia esse CαDa (in om. AD): invidiose BE

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:33

And how ingeniously have all your charges been collected! Blesamius, says he, (for it was in his name, a very excellent man, and one who was a stranger to you, that he was calumniating you, O Deiotarus,) used to write to the king, that you, O Caesar, were very unpopular; that you were considered a tyrant; that men were exceedingly offended at your statue having been placed among those of the kings; that you were never well received on your appearance in public. Do not you perceive, O Caesar, that these statements were collected by these fellows, from the city conversation of spiteful men? Could Blesamius have written to say that Caesar was a tyrant? Yes, for he had seen the heads of many citizens exposed; he had seen many men by the orders of Caesar ill-treated, scourged and executed; he had seen many houses pillaged and destroyed; he had seen the forum filled with armed troops!—No; those things which previously we always have felt after victories in civil war, we have not seen now, when you have been our conqueror.

34 · Cicero

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solus, inquam, es, C. Caesar, cuius in victoria ceciderit nemo nisi armatus. et quem nos liberi in summa populi Romani libertate nati non modo non tyrannum sed etiam clementissimum in victoria ducimus, is Blesamio qui vivit in regno tyrannus videri potest? nam de statua quis queritur, una praesertim, cum tam multas videat? valde enim invidendum est eius statuis cuius tropaeis non invidemus. nam si locus adfert invidiam, nullus est ad statuam quidem rostris clarior. de plausu autem quid respondeam? qui nec desideratus umquam in te est et non numquam obstupefactis hominibus ipsa admiratione compressus est et fortasse eo praetermissus quia nihil volgare te dignum videri potest.

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solus... cuius in om. Cα

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liberi om. H

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populi Romani del. Halm

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ducimus Cαγ: ducem vidimus E: vidimus ducem BD

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invidimus β

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est Cασ: locus est βa

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in te Cα: a te βγ

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:34

You are the only man—you I say, O Caius Caesar, are the only man, by whose victory no one has perished except with arms in his hand. And can the man whom we, free men, born in the enjoyment of the perfect liberty of the Roman people, consider not only no tyrant but as even the most merciful man possible in the use of victory, can he appear a tyrant to Blesamius, who is living under a king? For who complains about a statue, especially about one single statue, when he sees such a number? Great reason have we, indeed, to envy a man his statues, when we do not grudge him trophies; for if it be the place which provokes envy, surely there is no place more open and fit for a statue than the rostra. And as to the way in which he is received in public, why need I make any reply at all? for public applause has never been desired by you, and sometimes, owing to the amazement with which men have viewed your achievements, it has even been stifled by the excess of their admiration; and perhaps, too, it has been omitted because nothing vulgar could possibly appear worthy of you.

35 · Cicero

Original

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nihil a me arbitror praeteritum, sed aliquid ad extremam partem causae reservatum. id autem aliquid ⟨quid⟩ est? te ut plane Deiotaro reconciliet oratio mea. non enim iam metuo ne illi tu suscenseas; illud vereor ne tibi illum suscensere aliquid suspicere: quod abest longissime, mihi crede, Caesar. quid enim retineat per te meminit, non quid amiserit; neque se a te multatum arbitratur, sed, cum existimares multis tibi multa esse tribuenda, quo minus a se qui in altera parte fuisset ea sumeres non recusavit.

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praeteritum Cαa: praetermissum βσ

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extremam partem causae CH: extremum causae AVa: extremam (-um σ) causae partem βσ

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aliquid quid scripsi (cf. Lig. 22): aliquid codd.: quid Halm

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conciliet CH

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existimaret CH: existimarer A

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a se qui H: assequi cett. (C)

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fuisset Cασ: potuisset βa

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:35

I do not think that anything has been omitted by me; but some topics have been reserved for the end of my speech, and they are of such a nature that they ought to reconcile you cordially to Deiotarus—for I am not now afraid of your being angry with him; I am apprehensive rather of your suspecting that he harbours some resentment against you. And that suspicion, believe me, O Caesar, is as remote as possible from the truth. For he recollects only what he still has left owing to you, and not what he has lost by your means; nor does he consider that he has been deprived of anything by you, but being aware that it was necessary for you to give many rewards to many people, he did not think it hard that you should take something from him who had been on the other side.

36 · Cicero

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etenim si Antiochus Magnus ille, rex Asiae, cum, postea quam a L. Scipione devictus Tauro tenus regnare iussus est, omnem hanc Asiam quae est nunc nostra provincia amisisset, dicere est solitus benigne sibi a populo Romano esse factum, quod nimis magna procuratione liberatus modicis regni terminis uteretur, potest multo facilius hoc se Deiotarus consolari. ille enim furoris multam sustulerat, hic erroris. omnia tu Deiotaro, Caesar, tribuisti, cum et ipsi et filio nomen regium concessisti. hoc nomine retento atque servato nullum beneficium populi Romani, nullum iudicium de se senatus imminutum putat. Magno animo et erecto est, nec umquam succumbet inimicis, ne fortunae quidem.

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cum postea quam CAVβa: cum postea H: qui postquam σ

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L. om. C1β devictus est Lambin.

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est CαDγ: esset BE

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omnem Garatoni: omnemque codd.

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hoc Cαa: om. βσ

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sustulerat CH: distulerat AV: sustinuerat βa: subierat σ

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:36

In truth, if that great prince, Antiochus the Great the king of Asia, who, after he had been conquered by Scipio, was ordered to consider Mount Taurus as the boundary of his dominions, and was deprived of all this Asia which is now a province of our own,—if he was accustomed to say that he had been kindly treated by the Roman people, because be had been released by them from the care of an overgrown empire, and was now at liberty to enjoy a kingdom of moderate extent, Deiotarus can comfort himself much more easily. For Antiochus had suffered a chastisement for his insanity, my client only for an error. You, O Caesar, gave everything to Deiotarus when you gave him and his son the title of King; and as long as he is allowed to retain and preserve this title, he does not think that the kindness of the Roman people is at all diminished, or that the senate has come to any unfavourable decision respecting him. He preserves a great and lofty spirit, and will never succumb to his enemies, nor even to fortune.

37 · Cicero

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multa se arbitratur et peperisse ante factis et habere in animo atque virtute, quae nullo modo possit amittere. quae enim fortuna aut quis casus aut quae tanta possit iniuria omnium imperatorum de Deiotaro decreta delere? ab omnibus est enim is ornatus qui, postea quam in castris esse potuit per aetatem, in Asia, Cappadocia, Ponto, Cilicia, Syria bella gesserunt: senatus vero iudicia de illo tam multa tamque honorifica, quae publicis populi Romani litteris monumentisque consignata sunt, quae umquam vetustas obruet aut quae tanta delebit oblivio? quid de virtute eius dicam, de magnitudine animi, gravitate, constantia? quae omnes docti atque sapientes summa, quidam etiam bona sola esse dixerunt, eisque non modo ad bene sed etiam ad beate vivendum contentam esse virtutem.

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et reperisse β

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est enim is orn. Cαa: enim his orn. est σ: enim est orn. β

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bona sola Cαa: sola bona βσ eisque Nohl: isque (hisque) codd.

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:37

He thinks that by his previous conduct he has given birth to much, and that by his own courage and virtue he still has much which he cannot possibly he deprived of. For what fortune, or what accident, or what injury can happen to Deiotarus of such severity as to efface the decrees of all our generals respecting him? For he has been complimented and distinguished ever since he was of an age to serve in their camps, by all those men who have had the conduct of our wars in Asia, and in Cappadocia, and in Pontus, and in Cilicia, and in Syria. And what length of time will ever efface, what forgetfulness will ever obliterate those numerous and honourable resolutions of the senate respecting him, which have been recorded in the public writings and memorials of the Roman people? Why need I speak of his valour? why of his greatness of mind? of his wisdom? of his firmness and consistency? qualities which not only have all wise and learned men pronounced to be the greatest blessings, but which some have even considered the only real ones, and have said that virtue wanted nothing more than these for the purpose of living not only well, but even happily.

38 · Cicero

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haec ille reputans et dies noctesque cogitans non modo tibi non suscenset—esset enim non solum ingratus sed etiam amens—, verum omnem tranquillitatem et quietem senectutis refert acceptam clementiae tuae. quo quidem animo cum antea fuit, tum non dubito quin tuis litteris, quarum exemplum legi, quas ad eum Tarracone huic Blesamio dedisti, se magis etiam erexerit ab omnique sollicitudine abstraxerit. iubes enim eum bene sperare et bono esse animo, quod scio te non frustra scribere solere. memini enim isdem fere verbis ad me te scribere meque tuis litteris bene sperare non frustra esse iussum.

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accept. refert β

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:38

He, considering these things, and reflecting on them day and night, is so far from feeling resentment against you, (for he would not only be ungrateful, but even mad to do so,) that he attributes the whole of the tranquillity and quiet of his old age which he enjoys to your clemency. And as these were his sentiments previously, I do not doubt also that after the receipt of your letters, of which I have read a copy, which you gave to this Blesamius at Tarraco for Deiotarus, his spirit became loftier still, and that he ceased to feel any anxiety whatever. For in them you bid him entertain good hopes, and to be of good courage—expressions which I know you are not in the habit of using without a meaning: for I recollect that you wrote to me in almost the same language, and that when you bade me entertain good hopes of the future you were not deceiving me.

39 · Cicero

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laboro equidem regis Deiotari causa quocum mihi amicitiam res publica conciliavit, hospitium voluntas utriusque coniunxit, familiaritatem consuetudo attulit, summam vero necessitudinem magna eius officia in me et in exercitum meum effecerunt: sed cum de illo laboro, tum de multis amplissimis viris quibus semel ignotum a te esse oportet, nec tuum beneficium in dubium vocari, nec haerere in animis hominum sollicitudinem sempiternam, nec accidere ut quisquam te timere incipiat eorum qui sint semel a te liberati timore.

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benefic. tuum β

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timere iterum timere Lehmann

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:39

I am anxious, indeed, in this cause of King Deiotarus, with whom the affairs of this republic have united me in friendship, while our mutual regard for one another has connected us by ties of hospitality, with whom long acquaintance has engendered intimacy, and his great services to me and to my army have wrought in me the greatest affection for him. But while I am anxious about him, I am anxious also about many most distinguished men, who have been pardoned by you, and who ought to be able to consider their pardon, whenever pronounced, as binding for ever; and who ought not to feel that a doubt is thrown on the permanency of your kindness to them, nor to have a perpetual anxiety implanted in their minds; nor, in short, ought it to be allowed to happen that any one of those men should begin again to feel apprehension, who has once been released by you from fear.

40 · Cicero

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non debeo, Caesar, quod fieri solet in tantis periculis, temptare ecquonam modo dicendo misericordiam tuam commovere possim. nihil opus est. occurrere solet ipsa supplicibus et calamitosis, nullius oratione evocata. propone tibi duos reges et id animo contemplare quod oculis non potes: dabis profecto id misericordiae quod iracundiae denegasti. multa sunt monumenta clementiae tuae, sed maxime eorum incolumitates quibus salutem dedisti. quae si in privatis gloriosa sunt, multo magis commemorabuntur in regibus. semper regium nomen in hac civitate sanctum fuit, sociorum vero regum et amicorum sanctissimum.

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Caesar Cαa: C. Caesar βσ

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ecquonam Gulielmius: et quonam CH: quonam A (e coll. mea) Vβγ

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movere CAH

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maxime maxima Wesenberg

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:40

I ought not, O Caesar, to endeavour, as is often done by men in such danger as this, to move your pity by my language. There is no need of my doing so. Your feelings are of their own accord accustomed to come to the aid of the suppliant and unfortunate, without being elicited by the eloquence of anybody. Place before your eyes two kings, and contemplate with your mind what you cannot behold with your eyes. You will surely yield to your feelings of compassion what you refused to your resentment. There are many monuments of your clemency, but the chief, sure, are the secure happiness of those men to whom it is you have been the author of safety. And if such an action is glorious in the case of a private individual, much more will it be celebrated when it is a king who is the object of it. The title of King has always been accounted a holy name in this city; but the names of ally and king, when united together, are then the holiest of all titles.

41 · Cicero

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quod nomen hi reges ne amitterent te victore timuerunt, retentum vero et a te confirmatum posteris etiam suis tradituros se esse confidunt. corpora sua pro salute regum suorum hi legati regii tradunt, Hieras et Blesamius et Antigonus, tibi nobisque omnibus iam diu noti, eademque fide et virtute praeditus Dorylaus, qui nuper cum Hiera legatus est ad te missus, cum regum amicissimi, tum tibi etiam, ut spero, probati.

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se esse confidunt Cαa: esse confido BDσ: confido E

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legati Cαa: tibi ante regii add. β: post reg. σ

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Antigonus BD2σ: Antigenus D1E: Artignus Cα: Antigronus a: Antiochus Probus K. iv. p. 27, Sacerdos ii. 40

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Dorulaus Cα

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:41

And these kings were afraid that if you were victorious they might lose that name. But now that they have been allowed to retain it, and have been confirmed in it by you, I confidently trust that they will even transmit it to their posterity. Moreover, these ambassadors whom you see before you, Hieras, and Blesamius, and Antigonus, men with whom you and all of us have long been acquainted, and also Dorylaus, a man of the same loyalty and virtue as they, who was lately sent as ambassador to you in company with Hieras, devoted friends of the king, and men too who, as I hope, are highly esteemed by you, offer you their persons as hostages and pledges to secure the safety of their prince.

42 · Cicero

Original

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exquire de Blesamio num quid ad regem contra dignitatem tuam scripserit. Hieras quidem causam omnem suscipit et criminibus illis pro rege se supponit reum. memoriam tuam implorat, qua vales plurimum; negat umquam se a te in Deiotari tetrarchia pedem discessisse; in primis finibus tibi praesto se fuisse dicit, usque ad ultimos prosecutum; cum e balneo exisses, tecum se fuisse, cum illa munera inspexisses cenatus, cum in cubiculo recubuisses; eandemque adsiduitatem tibi se praebuisse postridie.

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tuam Hβσ: suam CAVa

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praesto se Cαa: se praesto βσ

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cum... tecum om. C1

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se om. Cα

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munera om. CH

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:42

Ask Blesamius whether he ever wrote anything to the king to the disparagement of your dignity. Hieras, indeed, undertakes the whole cause of Deiotarus, and offers himself as the defendant against all these charges in behalf of, and instead of, the king. He implores the aid of your recollection in his favour; a quality in which you greatly excel: he declares that all the time that you were in the tetrarchy of Deiotarus he never left your side. He says that he met you on the frontier, and that he attended you to the borders on the opposite side of the country; that when you left the bath he was with you, and when you surveyed all those presents after supper, and when you retired to rest in your bed-chamber. And he says, too, that he attended you in the same unremitting manner all the next day.

43 · Cicero

Original

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quam ob rem si quid eorum quae obiecta sunt cogitatum sit, non recusat quin id suum facinus iudices. Quocirca, C. Caesar, velim existimes hodierno die sententiam tuam aut cum summo dedecore miserrimam pestem importaturam esse regibus aut incolumem famam cum salute: quorum alterum optare illorum crudelitatis est, alterum conservare clementiae tuae.

Translation

local:caesar-world:deiotaro-en:43

Wherefore, if any one of those things which Deiotarus has been accused of, really was thought of, he does not object to your thinking the crime his. I entreat you, O Caius Caesar, to consider that on this day your sentence will bring on those kings either most miserable calamity, accompanied with infinite disgrace, or an unsullied reputation attended with safety; and to desire the one of those results would be an act of cruelty, to secure the other is an action suitable to your clemency.