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Cicero, Brutus 304–5

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. R. Hamilton
J. R. Hamilton
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University of Otago
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In an otherwise convincing article Mr. T. P. Wiseman argues that this passage ‘seems to mean (a) that L. Memmius and Q. Pompeius were principes, i.e. outstanding orators, and (b) that they were not among those who spoke in their own defence in 90 B.C.’. But he rightly refuses to believe that Cicero can have intended this, since, apart from other considerations, it is clear from Cicero's previous references to Memmius and Pompeius that he did not consider them to be outstanding orators.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , December 1968, pp. 412 - 413
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1968

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page 412 note 1 ‘Lucius Memmius and his Family’ in C.Q. N.s. xvii (1967), 164–7.Google Scholar

page 412 note 2 For Memmius see section 136; for Pompeius section 206. That the L. Memmius mentioned in section 136 is identical with the L. Memmius in the present passage is demonstrated by Wiseman, , op. cit. 166, n. 1.Google Scholar

page 412 note 3 Biedl, A., ‘De Memmiorum familia’, Wiener Studien xlviii (1930), 98–107, at p. 100.Google Scholar

page 412 note 4 For this idiom see Kühner-Stegmann, , Lateinische Grammatik, i. 623 f.;Google Scholar Madvig, Latin Grammar, para. 489b, and his note on De Finibus 4. 16. 43, ‘Hi ponunt illi quidem prima naturae, sed ea seiungunt a finibus et summa bonorum.’ Numerous examples are cited by Pease, A. S. on De Nat. Deor. 2. 117 (p. 844).Google Scholar

page 412 note 5 Sections 37, 70, 115, 128, 136, 140, 167, 177, 178, 227, 239, 240, 259, 267, 305.