The Speech in Defence of Cluentius Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1895 Original Publisher: Macmillan Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can selec... more »t from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: NOTES § I. altera . . . altera: nominatives, 'one of which . . . while the other.' I agree with Dr. J. S. Reid, who says that 'the neatness and lucidity of the opening sentence are entirely spoiled by taking these words as ablatives.' -- Classical Review, iii. (1889) p. 40. invidia. ' Prejudice' will perhaps best render invidia in every context; here prejudice 'excited by' or 'on the subject of the trial. Cp. pro Rab. Perd. § 2, invidia vitae, ' odium excited against him by his life.' Otherwise render ' the long-standing unpopularity' or ' the now time-honoured odium' of the trial. ludicium is either ' trial,' ' law-court,' ' bench of jurors,' or ' verdict,' according to the context. obscurare aliquid dicendo =' to throw a cloud of words over a subject.' The opposite is inlustrare oratione, de Or. i. § 61. -- Yet Cicero afterwards boasted ' that he had thrown dust in the eyes of the jury on the trial of Cluentius,' se tenebras offudisse iudicibus in causa Cluenti, Quintilian, ii. 17, 21. See Introduction, p. xii. § 3. sic inter vos disceptare debetis: ' you are bound, in putting the case to yourselves,' or, 'in determining the question among yourselves.' For disceptare, in the sense of discussing (or debating) a doubtful point, cp. Acad. ii. § 126, inter se disceptare. Zumpt's definition (quoted by Holden, de Off. i. § 50) is appropriate, disceptare est rationes conferre et expendere, suas tueri, alienas elevare. Probably because this meaning may have been felt to be inappropriate in the context, the inferior MSS. read inter nos disceptare, which would mean 'in adjudi...« less