Dolabella was present at all these battles. Are you ignorant that yesterday was the fourth day of the Roman games in the Circus? For I confess that, when I saw that these things certainly would happen, which now have happened, I was as greatly grieved as all the other virtuous citizens would have been if they had foreseen the same things. What council did you consult? At that time he had selected for himself to live in, not the house which he now dishonours, but that of Marcus Piso. whom did you ever invite to help you? As long as you please, Dolabella is a consul irregularly elected; again, while you please, he is a consul elected with all proper regard to the auspices. The first of January arrives. 50You were elected quæstor. But just see now what a difference there is between you and your grandfather. 43And what wages have you paid this rhetorician? II. Accuse the senate; accuse the equestrian body, which at that time was united with the senate; accuse every order of society, and all the citizens, as long as you confess that this assembly at this very moment is besieged by Ityrean soldiers. 65One man alone was found to dare to do that which the audacity of every one else had shrunk from and shuddered at. What? (for what else can I call him? or even at the time when you were elected, could you have got the votes of one single tribe without the aid of Curio? You then alone, O wicked man, were found, both to advise the assumption of kingly power, and to wish to have him for your master who was your colleague; and also to try what the Roman people might be able to bear and to endure. Beitrag Verfasst: 06.01.2016, 16:46 . Why need I mention the countless mass of papers, the innumerable autographs which have been brought forward? Then the second class. a body which has borne its testimony in favour of many most illustrious citizens that they governed the republic well, but in favour of me alone, of all men, that I preserved it. For perhaps you do not quite understand propositions which are stated disjunctively. But who was ever found before, except Publius Clodius, to find fault with my consulship? For you had not picked it up when lying on the ground, but you had brought it from home with you, a premeditated and deliberately planned wickedness. Hallo liebe Lateiner Ich habe mich gerade daran gemacht Philippicae 2,65 und 2,66 zu übersetzen. But what sort of kindness is it, to have abstained from committing nefarious wickedness? If they are false, why are they ratified? O ye good gods, how little did that attempt suit you! You say that you sent a man to Alexandria to buy it of Cæsar. There you did not put me to death. In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar’s death, Cicero and Mark Antony found themselves on opposing sides of an increasingly bitter and dangerous battle for control. Happy reading. Cicero, Philippic 2, 44–50, 78–92, 100–119. Have you any secret fear that you yourself may appear to have had some connexion with that crime? Did the death of Cæsar also put an end to your opinion respecting the auspices? e. .” What a strange combination of words! The mention of that wickedness of yours has been interrupted, but the recollection of it has not been effaced. And yet you, as if you had wiped off all the soot and smoke in the ensuing days, carried those excellent resolutions in the Capitol, that no document conferring any exemption, or granting any favour, should be published after the ides of March. But this man, who neither present nor absent could ever obtain from him any favour or justice while he was alive, became quite an influential man with him when he was dead. For that man was, O conscript fathers, as you yourselves know, not only illustrious abroad, but also admirable at home; and not more praiseworthy for his exploits in foreign countries, than for his domestic arrangements. He had already brought a free city, partly by fear, partly by patience, into a habit of slavery. oh the monstrous impudence of such an assertion! For what Roman knight was there, what youth of noble birth except you, what man of any rank or class who recollected that he was a citizen, who was not on the Capitoline Hill while the senate was assembled in this temple? 60For so great is men’s affection for their country, that I was sacred even in the eyes of your legions, because they recollected that the country had been saved by me. But lest by any chance, while enumerating his numerous exploits, our speech should pass over the finest action of Marcus Antonius, let us come to the Lupercalia. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. If it means nothing when an augur gives this notice in those words in which you gave notice, then confess that you, when you said,—“We adjourn this to another day,” were not sober. Cicero composed his incendiary Philippics only a few months after Rome was rocked by the brutal assassination of Julius Caesar. I should sooner say that some men had boasted in order to appear to have been concerned in that conspiracy, though they had in reality known nothing of it, than that any one who had been an accomplice in it could have wished to be concealed. Charybdis, do I say? 96He, like a wise man, knew that this was always the law, that those men from whom the things which tyrants had taken away had been taken, might recover them when the tyrants were slain. If you had no shame before the municipal towns, had you none even before your veteran army? Although, if it be a crime to have wished that Cæsar might be put to death, beware, I pray you, O Antonius, of what must be your own case, as it is notorious that you, when at Narbo, formed a plan of the same sort with Caius Trebonius; and it was on account of your participation in that design that, when Cæsar was being killed, we saw you called aside by Trebonius. Vergrößere die Wörter, die im Konjunktiv stehen und erkläre den Konjunktiv in der zweiten (rechten) Spalte! These are the first men who have ever ventured to attack, sword in hand, a man who was not aiming at regal power, but actually reigning. Although in this particular I admit that you have been more fortunate than I. 26Moreover, how likely it is, that among such a number of men, some obscure, some young men who had not the wit to conceal any one, my name could possibly have escaped notice! And besides all this, while Cæsar knew nothing about it, as he was at Alexandria, Antonius, by the kindness of Cæsar’s friends, was appointed his master of the horse. Suppose it is in honour of some Phormio, or Gnatho, or even Ballio. 92To other men the republic now seemed established, but it did not appear so at all to me, as I was afraid of every sort of shipwreck, as long as you were at the helm. But how could it occur to you to recal to our recollection that you had been educated in the house of Publius Lentulus? That there should be so vast a catalogue, that there should be such a numerous and various list of possessions, of all of which, with the exception of a portion of Misenum, there was nothing which the man who was putting them up to sale could call his own. Let us inquire then whether it was better for the arms of wicked men to yield to the freedom of the Roman people, or that our liberty should yield to your arms. O you detestable man, whether you are the priest of a tyrant, or of a dead man! For what was the reason for having a new law to inquire into the conduct of the man who had slain him, when there was a form of inquiry already established by the laws? 23And have you now been found, so many years afterwards, to say a thing which, at the time that the affair was under discussion, no one ventured to say against me? He is celebrating the birthday feast at his villa. If they are true, why are they sold? O wretched man, whether those things are not known to you, (for you know nothing that is good,) or whether they are, when you dare to speak so shamelessly before such men! The vote is declared; he is still silent. Were you afraid that we might think that you could have turned out as infamous as you are by the mere force of nature, if your natural qualities had not been strengthened by education? In truth, such a defence is full of filial affection. And by that plough you almost grazed the gate of Capua, so as to diminish the territory of that flourishing colony. May the indignation of the Roman people at last bring forth what it has been so long labouring with. Were you, then, seized with such stupidity,—or, I should rather say, with such insanity,—as not to see that if you, being of the rank in which you were born, acted as a broker at all, and above all as a broker in the case of Pompeius’s property, you would be execrated and hated by the Roman people, and that all gods and all men must at once become and for ever continue hostile to you? Foren-Übersicht » Übersetzungsfragen und -wünsche » Fragen zu einer Übersetzung (Latein - Deutsch) Alle Zeiten sind UTC. Of all this in a few days there was nothing left. but still by how different a person has it been occupied! What lictor was ever so humble, so abject? For Marcus Caelius by Marcus Tullius Cicero, translated by Charles Duke Yonge 56 BC. He did not know which way to turn. Besides that, they sought to recover their household gods, the gods of their country, their altars, their hearths, the tutelar gods of their family; all of which you had seized upon. 107Why should I mention the threats and insults with which he inveighed against the people of Teanum Sidicinum, with which he harassed the men of Puteoli, because they had adopted Caius Cassius and the Bruti as their patrons? In the mean time, while you yourself were absent, what a day was that for your colleague when he overturned that tomb in the forum, which you were accustomed to regard with veneration! I preferred confessing that I was under obligations to you, to letting myself appear to any foolish person not sufficiently grateful. How you made your escape from thence, or rather how you barely made your escape, we all know. Other articles where Philippics is discussed: Marcus Tullius Cicero: Last months: …of August, and his 14 Philippic orations (so called in imitation of Demosthenes’ speeches against Philip II of Macedonia), the first delivered on Sept. 2, 44, the last on April 21, 43, mark his vigorous reentry into politics. For I confess that you could have done it. why are not you inaugurated? After some time he at last went into Spain; but, as he says, he could not arrive there in safety. Click any word in the text to seeall the words it could come from.Click and drag to adjust vocab: © 2008-2019 NoDictionaries.com. what shall we say if Cæsar even wrote you that you were to give it up? An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. 1918. He was fortunate—if at least there can be any good fortune in wickedness. 85Your colleague was sitting in the rostra, clothed in purple robe, on a golden chair, wearing a crown. No mention of me was ever made by him that was not the most honourable that could be, that was not full of the most friendly regret for me; while he confessed that I had had the most foresight, but that he had had more sanguine hopes. You are at liberty to find fault with my conduct on those occasions if you can. 112XLIV. Charybdis, if she existed at all, was only one animal. He went from Egypt to the furthest extremity of Gaul before he returned home. Why should I now complain of what has been done in the district of Leontini? We are convened in the senate. I will release you from all apprehension; no one will ever believe it; it is not like you to deserve well of the republic; the most illustrious men in the republic are the authors of that exploit; I only say that you are glad it was done; I do not accuse you of having done it. why should he do so, any more than I should claim it of him? I did grieve, I did grieve, O conscript fathers, that the republic which had once been saved by your counsels and mine, was fated to perish in a short time. Why are we not all clad in the prætexta? what was the first of June that you waited for? He restored many men who had fallen under misfortune. But he also read letters which he said that I had sent to him, like a man devoid of humanity and ignorant of the common usages of life.
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