"Plutarch’s interpretation of the mutiny’s origin is plausible and, while not demonstrable beyond all doubt, certainly rings truer than modern attempts to infer from Clodius’s actions either a conspiracy (with Pompey) or an early challenge to the Sullan order."
"Even Cicero, in defending Milo after Clodius’s murder, tried to make an issue of the fact that, on that fateful day, Clodius had traveled without his wife—which he almost never did (Mil. 28); the prevailing assumption, or so Cicero clearly expected, was that Clodius had become ...全文
"Even Cicero, in defending Milo after Clodius’s murder, tried to make an issue of the fact that, on that fateful day, Clodius had traveled without his wife—which he almost never did (Mil. 28); the prevailing assumption, or so Cicero clearly expected, was that Clodius had become ...全文