laudabam, imperf. because it indicates Cicero's state of mind at the time. sed dicam, etc.: the whole context implies that in this matter Pompey went too far, and for this Cicero excuses him in what follows. fuit audiendus, he had to listen to (not cont. to fact). popa, an inferior priest who slew the sacrifices — hardly more than a butcher: such a person usually (as here) kept apopina, or restaurant and grog-shop; hence apud se ebrios. Circo maximo: the district near the Circus Maximus, the building for the great games, between the Palatine and Aventine hills. in hortos: § 428, 1, N. (259, g); H. 418 (380, i); wealthy Romans had large grounds (horti) attached to their city houses. Pompey was at this time staying at home to avoid Milo, as was alleged. credi popae: § 372 (230); B. 187, ii, b; G. 346, R.1; H. 426, 3 (384, ii, 5); H.-B. 364, 2.
This text is part of:
Select Orations of. Cicero. Allen and Greenough's Edition. Revised by J. B. Greenough and G. L. Kittredge, with a special vocabulary by J. B. Greenough.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.