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Excerpt from M. Tulli Ciceronis Pro Gnaeo Plancio Oratio Ad Iudices: Edited With Commentary and Introduction for the Syndics of the University Press The present commentary will be found exhaustive, as I have taken account of every word and phrase in the speech likely to create difficulty and left none unexplained; and, though perhaps to critics some of my notes may appear unnecessarily ample or too elementary, teachers will not think them so who know how much assistance students require, especially when they have not the opportunity of consulting good books of reference or the inclination to appeal to original authorities. My guides throughout have been the editions of Wunder and of Kopke: the former, produced at the expense of seven years' labour, is especially valuable for illustration, and I acknowledge once for all my great obligations to it: the Introduction is mainly taken from the latter. Frequent references have been made to the best Grammars in use; for experience has taught me that this is the surest means of fixing the important prin ciples of syntax in the mind. The principal variations of reading have been given in an Appendix on the text, and full Indexes have been added (1) of proper names and (2) of all the words and phrases which have been commented on in the notes. The Chronological Table of the principal events in the life of Cicero with especial indications of names mentioned in this speech, and a list of his other extant speeches, will be found useful to students preparing for an examination. In Short, I have spared no pains to make the edition as complete and trustworthy as a book should be which appears under the auspices of a great University. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving th