Tuesday, February 04, 2025

 

Two Out of Three

Cicero, Post Reditum in Senatu 5.11 (tr. N.H. Watts):
... had he not flown for refuge to the sanctuary of the tribunate, [he] would have been unable to escape either the multitude of his creditors or the proscription of his fortunes...

...nisi in aram tribunatus confugisset, neque vim praetoris nec multitudinem creditorum nec bonorum proscriptionem effugere potuisset...
Watts in his Loeb Classical Library version didn't translate neque vim praetoris.

Cf. Cicero, Back From Exile: Six Speeches upon his Return. Translated with Introductions and Notes by D.R. Shackleton Bailey (Scholars Press, 1991), p. 10:
...if he had not fled into the tribunate for sanctuary, he could never have escaped the Praetor's26 coercion, the multitude of his creditors, and the auction of his possessions...

26. The City Praetor (praetor urbanus), who dealt with litigation between Roman citizens.

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