Cicero, On Pompey’s Command (De Imperio), 27-49. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, Commentary, and Translation

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1. Preface and acknowledgements

2. Introduction: why does the set text matter?

3. Latin text with study questions and vocabulary aid
    The Only Way is Pompey (§27)
    The Perfect General, Pompey the Kid, and Mr. Experience (§28)
    His Excellence (and Excellences) (§29)
    Witnesses to the Truth! (§30)
    Pacifying the Pond, or: Pompey and the Pirates (§31)
    The Pirates of the Mediterranean (§32)
    Pirates ante portas! (§33)
    Pompey’s Cruise Control (I): ‘I Have a Fleet – and Need for Speed’ (§34)
    Pompey’s Cruise Control (II): ‘I Have a Fleet – and Need for Speed’ (§35)
    ‘Thou Art More Lovely and More Temperate’: Pompey’s Soft Sides (§36)
    SPQR Confidential (§37)
    Of Locusts and Leeches (§38)
    Pompey the Peaceful, or: Imperialism with Gloves (§39)
    No Sight-Seeing or Souvenirs for the Perfect General (§40)
    Saint Pompey (§41)
    Peace for our Time (§42)
    Rumour and Renown: Pompey’s auctoritas (§43)
    Case Study I: The Socio-Economics of Pompey’s auctoritas (§44)
    Case Study II: Pompey’s auctoritas and psychological warfare (§45)
    Auctoritas Supreme (§46)
    Felicitas, or how not to ‘Sull(a)y’ Pompey (§47)
    The Darling of the Gods (§48)
    Summing Up (§49)

4. Commentary

5. Further resources
    Chronological table: the parallel lives of Pompey and Cicero
    The speech in summary, or: what a Roman citizen may have heard in the forum
    Translation of §§ 27-49
    The protagonists: Cicero – Pompey – Manilius
    The historical context (the contio, imperial expansion, civil wars, the shadow of Sulla, extraordinary commands)
    List of rhetorical terms

6. Bibliography

Ingo Gildenhard is Reader in Classics and the Classical Tradition at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of King’s College Cambridge. Ingo specializes in Latin literature (with a special emphasis on Cicero, Virgil, and Ovid); Roman culture (especially the political culture of the Roman republic and early principate); the classical tradition and literary and social theory. His previous publications include the monographs Paideia Romana: Cicero's Tusculan Disputations (2007), Creative Eloquence: The Construction of Reality in Cicero's Speeches (2011) and The Classical Tradition: Art, Literature, Thought (with Michael Silk and Rosemary Barrow) (2014). He has also published three textbooks with Open Book Publishers: Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.53-86. Latin Text with Introduction, Study Questions, Commentary and English Translation, Virgil, Aeneid, 4.1-299: Latin Text, Study Questions, Commentary and Interpretative Essays, and (with Mathew Owen) Tacitus, Annals, 15.20-23, 33-45. Latin Text, Study Aids with Vocabulary, and Commentary.

Louise Hodgson gained a first class degree in Classics and an MA (with distinction) in Ancient History from Durham University and is currently revising her doctoral dissertation Without Body or Form: Res Publica and the Roman Republic (Durham, 2013) for publication.

© 2014 Ingo Gildenhard, Louise Hodgson, et al.

1. V. Foppa, The Young Cicero Reading, c.1464. Photograph by Sailko, 2011. Image from Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincenzo_foppa,_giovane_che_legge_cicerone,_dal_banco_mediceo_di_milano_03.JPG
2. Roman statue of Pompey, in Villa Arconati a Castellazzo di Bollate (Milan). Photograph by Guido Bertolotti, 2007. Image from Wikimedia: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PompeoMagno.jpg