Fragmentary speeches / Cicero ; edited and translated by Jane W. Crawford, Andrew R. Dyck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, author.

Contributor:

Crawford, Jane W., editor, translator.

Dyck, Andrew R. (Andrew Roy), 1947- editor, translator.

Series:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. English (Loeb classical library) ; Works. 30.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Latin (Loeb classical library) ; Works. 30.

Cicero ; XXX

Loeb classical library ; LCL 556

Loeb classical library ; 556.

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Rome--Politics and government--265-30 B.C--Sources.

Rome.

Genre:

speeches (documents)

Speeches.

Physical Description:

lxxi, 432 pages ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In Cicero's political speeches and in his correspondence, we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the important part he played in the turmoil of the time. Although Cicero's oratory is well attested-of 106 known speeches, fifty-eight survive intact or in large part-the sixteen speeches that survive only in quotations nevertheless fill gaps in our knowledge. These speeches attracted the interest of later authors, particularly Asconius and Quintilian, for their exemplary content, oratorical strategies, or use of language, failing to survive entire not because they were inferior in quality or interest but due to factors contingent on the way Cicero's speeches were read, circulated, and evaluated in (especially late) antiquity. The fragmentary speeches fall, like Cicero's career in general, into three periods: the preconsular, the consular, and the postconsular, and here are presented chronologically, numbered continuously, and their fragments arranged, insofar as possible, in the order in which they would have occurred, followed by unplaced quotations. Each speech receives an introduction and ample notation. This edition, which completes the Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero, includes all speeches with attested fragments, together with testimonia. Based upon Crawford's edition of 1994, the sources have been examined afresh, and newer source-editions substituted where appropriate"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

General introduction. Cicero's fragmentary speeches. The quoting authors. Problematic cases. Plan of this edition. A note on the translation. Brackets and symbols

Abbreviations

General bibliography

The speeches

On behalf of L. Varenus

When he departed Lilybaeum as quaestor

On behalf of P. Oppius

On C. Manilius

On behalf of Cornelius I-II (testimonia)

On behalf of Cornelius I

On behalf of Cornelius II

On King Ptolemy

On behalf of C. Fundanius

In a white toga

On behalf of Q. Gallius

On Otho

On the sons of the proscribed

Against Q. Metellus' speech in a public meeting

Against Clodius and Curio

Interrogation about Milo's debt

On behalf of Milo (speech taken down)

Unplaced fragments

Appendix: outline of On behalf of Cornelius I

Concordances

Indexes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xli-lxxi) and indexes.

Contains:

Container of: Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Speeches. Fragments. English (Crawford and Dyck)

Container of: Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Speeches. Fragments. Latin (Crawford and Dyck)

ISBN:

9780674997622

067499762X

OCLC:

1396058873