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Notes on Cicero, Ad Q. Fratrem
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2012
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Editors continue to print ‘inter hos eos’, referring hos ‘generally to the ministros mentioned above (§ 10)’ (Tyrrell-Purser). But §§ 10, from ‘quamquam legatos’ onwards, and II deal exclusively with the publicly commissioned officers on Quintus' staff, namely the Quaestor and Legati, so that hos cannot credibly cover any but these. ‘manifestissimum est mendum hie subesse, quod obscuriore indicio aliquis suspicari posset vel ex hoc concursu insuavi pronominum hos eos quos’: so far Madvig must be followed, but his remedy, ‘atque interest hoc: eos quos’ strikes me as artificial. If inter nos were omitted all would be well. Conceivably internos may have been a marginal annotation on ‘quos vero’ et sqq., to mark the transition from the officers of state to the praetor's domestics and personal friends.
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1 Adv. 111, p. 193.
2 Shuckburgh and Glynn-Williams take in illum with liberalis. But we could hardly do without a reference to Fundanius as the victim.
3 The identity of the person named remains in doubt. Apart from Sevius Nicanor, a grammarian mentioned by Suetonius (Gram. 5), no other Sevii to be attested in Republican times. Some editors and Münzer in Pauly-Wissowa think Servius Pola is intended, but he was politically active two years later (Q.Fr. 2, 11, 2).
4 Manutius, however, writes: ‘nolebant autem ideo haberi comitia candidati consulares, quo plus haberent spatii ad hominum studia colligenda.’ If Cicero had meant that, he would have written candidati rather than rei.
5 See Mommsen, , Röm. Staatsrecht, I 2, 495Google Scholar, n. 4. Perhaps the evidence adds up to this: a man could not normally become a candidate (petere) while under accusation, but once he had been accepted as such (ratio habita) a subsequent postulatio did not prevent his election, unless, of course, he was condemned beforehand.