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Notes on Cicero, In Pisonem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

T. E. V. Pearce
Affiliation:
University of Aberdeen

Extract

The following notes on the In Pisonem are largely based on the commentary of R. G. M. Nisbet (Oxford, 1961) (‘N’). The references to the speech are by section and line of his text, and where my note is based on one of his I add a reference to the page of his commentary.

1. 20 (p. 58) voltus …, qui sermo quidam tacitus mentis est: ‘thoughts are usually revealed by the face.’ Add to Otto's, Seyffert-Muller's, and N.'s examples: Curtius 8. 6. 22 ‘voltus haud sane securi animi index’, Juv. 9. 18 ff.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1970

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page 309 note 1 I am very greatly indebted to Professor Nisbet for his interest and help, and I have benefited from the comments of Professor W. S. Watt and Professor Gordon Williams.

page 310 note 1 Cf. also Plut, . Aem. 10Google Scholar,

page 310 note 2 Cf. Tac, . Hist. 4.Google Scholar 40 ‘damnatus Publius et Sorani manibus satis factum.’

page 311 note 1 See addenda for Tac, . Hist. 1.Google Scholar 49.

page 311 note 2 Not included is Servius audits, Aen. 8. 652 ‘sane hie Manlius post defensum Capitolium pro praemio singulis libris farris obvirtutem a populo donatus est’ (cf. Livy 5. 47. 7).

page 312 note 1 I owe this and some other references to Mr. E. J. P. Raven.

page 312 note 2 Sabbadini's comma after donat is misleading.

page 313 note 3 Or eighteen, if the examples in the doubtful lines 12. 50 f. are included; cf. Axelson, op. cit. 79.

page 315 note 1 See addenda for Herodian 1. 7. 3.

page 316 note 1 Cf. Pis. 95 ‘P. Rutilio … Rutili’.

page 317 note 1 See addenda for Plut, . Dion 24. 4.Google Scholar

page 317 note 2 Cf. ibid. 329 f. for Epist. 1. 7. 20–3.

page 318 note 1 I exclude Har. Resp. 59 ‘quam … Charybdim poetae fingendo exprimere potuerunt, quae tantos exhauriret gurgites quantas iste Byzantiorum Brogitarumque praedas exsorbuit?’

page 318 note 2 On Aen. 5. 22 f. ‘superat quoniam Fortuna, sequamur, / quoque vocat vertamus iter‘ Servius auctus comments: ‘videtur bis idem dixisse.’