De Imperio Cn. Pompei

De Imperio Cn. Pompei ("On the Imperium of Gnaeus Pompeius"), also known as Pro Lege Manilia ("In Favour of the Manilian Law"), was a speech delivered by Cicero in 66 BC before the Roman popular assembly.^[1] It was in support of the proposal made by Gaius Manilius, a tribune of the people, that Pompey the Great be given sole command against Mithridates in the Third Mithridatic War.^[2]^[3]

Cicero advertised Pompey as the only man with the skills for the campaign but also attempted to avoid offending the senatorial aristocracy unnecessarily. However, by supporting Pompey, Cicero had publicly committed himself.

References

^ Cicero (2013-12-19). De Imperio: An Extract 27-45. A&C Black. p. 1. ISBN 9781472513762. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
^ Marcus Tullius Cicero (1966). De Imperio Cn. Pompei ad Quirites oratio: pro lege Manilia. Bristol Classical Press. ISBN 978-0-86292-182-8.
^ Marcus Tullius Cicero (1905). M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Pro Sex. Roscio ; De imperio Cn. Pompei ; Pro Cluentio ; In Catilinam ; Pro Murena ; Pro Caelio. Oxford University Press. pp. 90–. ISBN 978-0-19-814605-6.

External links

Cicero, De Lege Manilia, English Translation at attalus.org
Latin Wikisource has original text related to this article: De imperio Cn. Pompei ad quirites

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Treatises

Rhetoric and politics	De Inventione De Oratore Book III De Partitionibus Oratoriae De Optimo Genere Oratorum Brutus Orator De Legibus
Philosophical	Hortensius Academica Consolatio De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum Tusculanae Disputationes De Natura Deorum De Divinatione De Fato Cato Maior de Senectute Laelius de Amicitia De Officiis De Re Publica Somnium Scipionis Paradoxa Stoicorum

Orations

Political	De Imperio Cn. Pompei In Catilinam I–IV In Toga Candida Pro Milone Pro Marcello Philippicae
Judicial	Pro Quinctio Pro Roscio Amerino Divinatio in Caecilium In Verrem Pro Tullio Pro Caecina Pro Cluentio Pro Archia Poeta Pro Caelio