Pro Marco Fonteio
- Language:
- Latin
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~7,370 words · 35 passages
Cite this work
- APACicero. (n.d.). Pro Marco Fonteio. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/pro-marco-fonteio
- MLACicero. Pro Marco Fonteio. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/pro-marco-fonteio.
- ChicagoCicero. Pro Marco Fonteio. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/pro-marco-fonteio.
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What it is about
The defence of a governor of Gaul accused by the province's own inhabitants of plundering it.
Context and history
Here Cicero argues the exact opposite of his case against Verres: that provincial testimony does not weigh as much as a Roman citizen's. Having both texts in the catalogue is what lets a reader see that an advocate is not his doctrine.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
posse placari? Cum his vos testibus vestram religionem coniungetis, ab quicquam sancte aut moderate dictum putabitis? [32] Hoc vestrae mentes tam castae, tam integrae sibi suscipient ut, cum omnes legati nostri qui illo triennio in Galliam venerunt, omnes equites Romani qui in illa provincia fuerunt, omnes negotiatores eius provinciae, denique omnes in Gallia qui sunt socii populi Romani atque amici, M. Fonteium incolumem esse cupiant, iurati privatim et publice laudent, vos tamen cum Gallis iugulare malitis? Quid ut secuti esse videamini? voluntatemne hominum? gravior igitur vobis erit hostium voluntas quam civium? An dignitatem testium? potestis igitur ignotos notis, iniquos aequis, alienigenas domesticis, cupidos moderatis, mercennarios gratuitis, impios religiosis, inimicissimos huic imperio ac nomini bonis ac fidelibus et sociis et civibus anteferre? An vero dubitatis, iudices, quin insitas inimicitias istae gentes omnes et habeant et gerant cum populi Romani nomine? Sic existimatis eos hic sagatos bracatosque versari, animo demisso atque humili, ut solent ei qui adfecti iniuriis ad opem iudicum supplices inferioresque confugiunt? Nihil vero minus. Hi contra vagantur laeti atque erecti passim toto foro cum quibusdam minis et barbaro atque immani terrore verborum; quod ego profecto non crederem, nisi aliquotiens ex ipsis accusatoribus vobiscum simul, iudices, audissem, cum praeciperent ut caveretis ne hoc absoluto novum aliquod bellum Gallicum concitaretur. [34] Si M. Fonteium, iudices, in causa deficerent omnia, si turpi adulescentia, vita infami, magistratibus quos ante oculos vestros gessit , convictus virorum bonorum testimoniis, legationibus flagitiose obitis, invisus suis omnibus in iudicium vocaretur, si in eo iudicio colonorum populi Romani Narbonensium, fidelissimorum sociorum Massiliensium, civium Romanorum omnium testimoniis tabulisque premeretur, tamen esset vobis magno opere providendum ne, quos ita adflictos a vestris patribus maioribusque…
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