Pro P. Sulla oratio /
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Pro P. Sulla oratio / Cicero ; edited with introduction and commentary by D.H. Berry. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004, c1996. - xxvi, 335 pages : genealogical table ; 23 cm. - Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 30.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xxvi) and index.
"In 62 BC, the year after his suppression of Catiline, Cicero delivered pro Sulla, a successful defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, the nephew of the dictator, on a charge of participation in the Catilinarian conspiracy. The case was controversial, not least because Cicero received from Sulla two million sesterces for undertaking the defence. Sulla is generally thought to have been guilty, and Cicero has been severely criticised by scholars for accepting the case.
This edition, which contains a new text together with introduction, commentary and appendices, is the first full-scale scholarly treatment of the speech. The text takes account of Gulielmius' reports of the missing portion of the Erfurtensis manuscript, recovered by Dr Berry and published as a preliminary to this edition in 1989; a complete collation is provided of this and the other principal manuscripts, and the edition contains some previously unpublished conjectures by A.E. Housman. The introduction includes a reassessment of Sulla's guilt and Cicero's undertaking of the case, and also considers issues such as the prose rhythm of the speech and its publication. The commentary discusses history, text and syntax as well as rhetoric and style.
This edition will be welcomed by Latin scholars and their pupils. It will appeal especially to those interested in the history of the late Roman republic and in oratory and rhetoric." -- Publisher's description.
0521481740 hardback 0521604214 paperback 9780521604215 paperback
Sulla, Publius Cornelius, -45 B.C.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Rome--History--Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C.
875.01
Pro P. Sulla oratio / Cicero ; edited with introduction and commentary by D.H. Berry. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004, c1996. - xxvi, 335 pages : genealogical table ; 23 cm. - Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 30.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xv-xxvi) and index.
"In 62 BC, the year after his suppression of Catiline, Cicero delivered pro Sulla, a successful defence of P. Cornelius Sulla, the nephew of the dictator, on a charge of participation in the Catilinarian conspiracy. The case was controversial, not least because Cicero received from Sulla two million sesterces for undertaking the defence. Sulla is generally thought to have been guilty, and Cicero has been severely criticised by scholars for accepting the case.
This edition, which contains a new text together with introduction, commentary and appendices, is the first full-scale scholarly treatment of the speech. The text takes account of Gulielmius' reports of the missing portion of the Erfurtensis manuscript, recovered by Dr Berry and published as a preliminary to this edition in 1989; a complete collation is provided of this and the other principal manuscripts, and the edition contains some previously unpublished conjectures by A.E. Housman. The introduction includes a reassessment of Sulla's guilt and Cicero's undertaking of the case, and also considers issues such as the prose rhythm of the speech and its publication. The commentary discusses history, text and syntax as well as rhetoric and style.
This edition will be welcomed by Latin scholars and their pupils. It will appeal especially to those interested in the history of the late Roman republic and in oratory and rhetoric." -- Publisher's description.
0521481740 hardback 0521604214 paperback 9780521604215 paperback
Sulla, Publius Cornelius, -45 B.C.
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Rome--History--Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C.
875.01