The History of Roman Literature - Part 49
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[18] _In toga candida_.

[19] _Pro. Q. Gellio_ (lost).

[20] _De lege Agraria_.

[21] _Pro C. Rabirio_.

[22] _Pro Calpurnio Pisone_ (lost).

[23] _In L. Catilinam_.

[24] _Pro Muraena_.

[25] _Pro Cornelio Sulla_ (lost).

[26] _Pro Archia poeta_.

[27] _Pro Scip. Nasica_.

[28] _Orationes Consulares_.

[29] _Pro A. Themio_ (lost).

[30] _Pro Flacco_.

[31] _Orationes post reditum_. They are _ad Senatum_, and _ad Populum_.

[32] _De domo sua_.

[33] _De haruspic.u.m responsis_.

[34] _Pro L. Bestia_.

[35] _Pro s.e.xtio_.

[36] _De Provinciis Consularibus_.

[37] _Pro Coelio_.

[38] Pro Can. Gallo_ (lost).

[39] _In Pisonen_.

[40] _Pro Plancio_.

[41] _Pro Scauro_ (lost).

[42] Pro G. Rabirio Postumo_ (lost).

[43] _Pro T. Annia Milone_.

[44] _Pro Marcello_.

[45] _Pro Q. Ligario_.

[46] _Pro Rege Deiotaro_.

[47] _Orationes Philippicae in M. Antonium_ xiv.

[48] Such are the speeches for the Manilian law, for Marcellus, Archias, and some of the later Philippics in praise of Octavius and Servius Sulpicius.

[49] It will be remembered that Milo and Clodius had encountered each other on the Appian Road, and in the scuffle that ensued, the latter had been killed. Cicero tries to prove that Milo was not the aggressor, but that, even if he had been, he would have been justified, since Clodius was a pernicious citizen dangerous to the state.

[50] Rosc. Com. 7.

[51] In Verr. ii. v. 11.

[52] In Vatin. 2.

[53] Pro Font. 11.

[54] Pro Rabir. Post. 13.

[55] Cat. iii. 3.

[56] Pro Coel. 3.

[57] Phil. ii. 41.

[58] In Verr. v. 65.

[59] Pro Coel. 6.

[60] Pro Cluent. pa.s.s.

[61] Forsyth; p. 544.

[62] He himself quotes with approval the sentiment of Lucilius:

nec doctissimis; Manium Persium haec legere nolo; Iunium Congum volo.

[63] _De Republica_, _De Legibus_ and _De Officiis_.

[64] N. D. ii. 1, fin.

[65] De Off. i. 43.

[66] See Acad. Post. ii. 41.