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THREE TEXTUAL NOTES ON CICERO, DE LEGE AGRARIA 2

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2019

Andrew R. Dyck*
Affiliation:
Los Angeles

Extract

(1) 2.4:

itaque me non extrema †tribus† suffragiorum, sed primi illi uestri concursus, neque singulae uoces praeconum, sed una uox uniuersi populi Romani consulem declarauit.

Cicero narrates his election as consul. The above is the text printed by G. Manuwald, who notes that the construction of tribus is ‘odd’ and was queried by J.-L. Ferrary. She suspects that tribus ‘may be an explanatory gloss (or part of it) that entered the text’ and should therefore be deleted with Kayser. She rejects Richter's conjecture diribitio for tribus as palaeographically implausible.

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Shorter Notes
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Copyright © The Classical Association 2019

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References

1 Manuwald, G., Cicero: Agrarian Speeches. Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Oxford, 2018), 197CrossRefGoogle Scholar, citing J.-L. Ferrary, review of V. Marek (ed.), M. Tulli Ciceronis scripta quae manserunt omnia, fasc. 16: orationes de lege agraria, oratio pro C. Rabirio perduellionis reo (Leipzig, 1983), REL 63 (1985), 275–6, at 276; Kayser, C.L., M.T. Ciceronis opera, vol. 4 (Leipzig, 1861)Google Scholar; F. Richter, review of A.W. Zumpt (ed. comm.), M. Tullii Ciceronis orationes tres de lege agraria (Berlin, 1861), Jahrbücher für classische Philologie 9 (1863), 251–72, at 267.

2 Presumably in his Epistolae (Venice, 1738; inaccessible to me); Marek (n. 1) cites this as Ferratus [sic] (Padua, 1773); the conjecture was evidently quoted in that edition (Ferratius died in 1748).

3 Madvig, I.N., Adversaria Critica (Copenhagen, 1873), 2.204Google Scholar.

4 Manuwald (n. 1), 215.

5 According to a search of the database latin.packhum/org (only genuine works counted).

6 Manuwald (n. 1), 411.

7 See latin.packhum/org under #summis# ~ #viribus#.

8 I would like to thank this journal's reader for helpful suggestions.