CICERO,
Pro Milone. Edited by Th.J. Keeline.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 2021. XIX,381p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. 'The introduction, in seven parts, covers chapter 1 the Pro Milone and Cicero’s career. (...) Chapter 2 gives an account of the death of Clodius, Milo’s trial, and the aftermath, and the historical background. (...) The chapter should be read in conjunction with the extremely helpful and detailed timeline given in chapter 3. Chapter 4 covers the argument and outline of the speech (...) under eight headings. (...) A lengthy account of Cicero’s Style follows in chapter 5 (‘periodic’ sentences, word order, prose rhythm). (...) Chapter 6 - Revision and Publication - takes us into the question of whether the speech we have is the same as the speech he actually gave (very probably not). (...) In chapter 7, K. gives much more attention to the textual tradition than has become usual with the Green and Yellows, and this is continued in the Text itself, which is furnished with a fully adequate apparatus criticus. (...) The text takes up roughly 30 pages; the commentary takes up 260 pages—over eight pages for each page of text. It is hardly necessary to say that K. has covered, often at length, every point, whether textual, grammatical, syntactical, prosodic, or historical that the student could seek guidance on. (...) It is hard to imagine any need for another commentary on Pro Milone for many years.' (COLIN LEACH in Classics for all, 12.05.21).
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