This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ...a particular crime, and ordered that the person accused should then be present. This was called dicere diem. Mulctam irrogarat. Irro gare mulctam signifies "to propose" to the people the imposition of " a fine: " dicere mulctam, "to impose a fine." Actionem perduellionis. "Instituted an action of treason." Perduellis was anciently used for hostis: afterwards it signified " an enemy to citizens," or " to the state." Hence perduellio, " hostility," came to signify "violence against one's citizens," or " against the state "--" treason." Et mihi videlicet. Ironically: "And I had to dread the event of a trial, forsooth, in a cause, not most glorious, but a bad one; not yours, but my own."--Meos cives, pro me objici. Pompey and other friends of Cicero advised him to raise a body of citizens and others against Clodius, and to oppose force to force; but to this he objected.--Q. Hortensium. Clodius summoned into the Flaminian Circus all the nobles and knights who had espoused the cause of Cicero, to give an account of their conduct; but as soon as they appeared, he ordered his slaves and mercenaries to fall upon them with drawn swords, and volleys of stones, in such a manner that Hortensius was almost killed, and Vibienus, another senator, so desperately wounded, that he died shortly after. Comp. Sext. c. 12. "This Hortensius was a very celebrated orator: he reigned absolute in the Roman forum, when Cicero first entered it; and as his superior fame was the chief spur to Cicero's industry, so the shining specimen which Cicero soon gave of himself made Hortensius likewise the brighter for it, by obliging him to exert all the force of his...

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