Pro Marco Tullio
- 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:
- ~4,630 words · 22 passages
Cite this work
- APACicero. (n.d.). Pro Marco Tullio. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/pro-marco-tullio
- MLACicero. Pro Marco Tullio. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/pro-marco-tullio.
- ChicagoCicero. Pro Marco Tullio. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/pro-marco-tullio.
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What it is about
Pro Tullio: a lawsuit over an armed gang that raided an estate.
Context and history
One of the early speeches and the oldest surviving text on private violence in the Italian countryside. There is no grand politics here: there are armed slaves, property boundaries and a dead man. That is exactly its value. Text in LATIN: the original, and what should be cited.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
27si ita iudicium daretur ut id concluderetur quod a familia factum esset, si quae familia ipsa in caede interesse noluisset et homines aut servos aut liberos coegisset aut conduxisset, totum hoc iudicium et praetoris severitas dissolveretur. nemo enim potest hoc iudicare, qua in re familia non interfuisset, in ea re eam ipsam familiam vi armatis hominibus damnum dedisse. ergo, id quia poterat fieri et facile poterat, idcirco non satis habitum est quaeri quid familia ipsa fecisset, verum etiam illud, quid familiae dolo malo factum esset. 28nam cum facit ipsa familia vim armatis coactisve hominibus et damnum cuipiam dat, id dolo malo fieri necesse est; cum autem rationem init ut ea fiat, familia ipsa non facit, fit autem dolo malo eius. ergo addito 'dolo malo' actoris et petitoris fit causa copiosior. Vtrum enim ostendere potest, sive eam ipsam familiam sibi damnum dedisse, sive consilio et opera eius familiae factum esse, vincat necesse est. 29videtis praetores per hos annos interdicere hoc modo, me et M. Claudium: Vnde dolo malo tvo, M. Tvlli, M. Clavdivs avt familia avt procvrator eivs vi detrvsvs est, cetera ex formula. si, ubi ita interdictum est et sponsio facta, ego me ad iudicem sic defendam vi me deiecisse confitear, dolo malo negem, ecquis me audiat? non opinor equidem, quia, si vi deieci M. Claudium, dolo malo deieci; in vi enim dolus malus inest, et Claudio utrumvis satis est planum facere, vel se a me ipso vi deiectum esse vel me consilium inisse ut vi deiceretur. 30plus igitur Claudio, cum interdicitur, unde dolo malo meo vi deiectus sit, quam si daretur, unde a me vi deiectus esset. nam in hoc posteriore, nisi ipse egomet deiecissem, vincerem sponsionem; in illo priore, ubi dolus malus additur, sive consilium inissem, sive ipse deiecissem, necesse erat te dolo malo meo vi deiectum iudicari.
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