[13]
Nor is it any wonder if he, who had his voice for sale,
thought that those things which he had acquired by his voice would be a great profit to
him; so that without much moderation, he carried off whatever he could from the common
stock to his private house for himself. And in this he was as industrious as if all who
behaved in a partnership with exact good faith, were usually condemned in a trial before
an arbitrator. 1 But concerning
these matters I do not consider it necessary to say what Publius Quinctius wishes me to
mention; although the cause calls for it: yet as it only calls for it, and does not
absolutely require it, 2 I will pass it over.
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
1 The Latin has “arbitrium pro socio condemnari,” on which Graevius says, “Arbitrium pro socio, is a formula of law, by which is signified an action and trial in a case of partnership if any one had cheated his partner; and Cicero means that Naevius was as industrious in cheating his partner, as if those who did not cheat were liable to be condemned, and not those who did cheat.”
2 The Latin has quia postulat non flagitat, both words being nearly synonymous, but flagito being evidently a stronger word than postulo.
M. Tullius Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, literally translated by C. D. Yonge. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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.