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9.  De  studiis  humanitoHSf  &c.  <*  To  enlaiga  with  somewhat  ^Q
more  freedom  than  is  usaal  here,  on  liberal  studies  and  Uterature  in
in  general,  and,  in  the  case  of  such  an  individual  as  this,  who,  on
account  of  his  retired  and  studious  mode  of  life,  has  been  by  no
means  conversant  with  public  trials,  and  the  risks  that  attend  them,
to  employ  a  novel  and  unusual  mode  of  speaking." — Tractata  est
is  here  equivalent  to  e^citata  est.  Compare  the  explanation  jof
Doring .  *'  Traetamus  rem,  quam  atlingimus,vel  in  qua  nos  exer-
eemus  ;  et  sic  ipsae  res,  site  personae,  quae  in  aliqua  re  exercen-
tuTf  in  ea  traetari  dicuniur.  Consult  also  Emesti,  Clav.  Cic.  s.  v.
iraetare.
9.  In  ejusmodi  persona.  Referring  Ao  Archias.  Passeratius
makes  the  allusion  to  be  to  the  orator  himself,  of  which  explanation
Bormann  {ad  Ov.  Rem.  Am.  381)  approves.  Both,  however,  are
wrong.     Consult  Emesti,  Clav,  Cic.  s.  v.  tractare,

10.  Novo  quodam,  &c.  The  novel  kind  of  speaking,  to  which
Cicero  alludes,  is  the  introduction  of  literary  topics  into  the  discus-
sion of  a  legal  point.  *^        ~

11.  Perficiam  profecto,  &c.  "  I  will  assuredly  cause  you  to
entertain  the  conviction,  that  my  friend  Aulus  Licinms  here,  not
only  ought  not,  as  he  is  a  citizen,  to  be  excluded  from  their  number,

but  even  ought,  if  he  were  not  a  citizen,  to  be  admitted  among  .^^

them."  /

.  12.  Nam  ut  primum,  6cc.    From  his  being  subsequently  called       -^
yraetextatus,  Archias  must  at  the  time  here  allud^  to  have  been
about  14  or  15  years  of  age.
