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Orodi regis Parthorum filium, cum permagno equitatu 

 Parthico transisse Euphratem et castra posiiisse Tybae 

 magimmque tumultum esse in provincia Syria exci- 

 tatum. 



Though, no doubt, in such expressions as infesto exercitu venire, it 

 is possible to omit cum, still I should prefer to add it here before 

 cunctis, where it might easily have fallen out. In the despatch to the 

 Senate (Fam. xv. 1), written two days previously, the account of this 

 event is (§ 1) Parthos transisse Euphratem c ic m omniius fere suis copiis; 

 cf . § 2 cum permagno equitatu. The same despatch says (§2) that 

 the Parthians had pitched their camp at Tyba. It cannot possibly be 

 maintained that this Tyba is the town of that name between Thap- 

 sacus and Palmyra ; it must be located in Cyrrhestica. IS'ow in the 

 account of the capture of Pindenissus (Pam. xv. 4. 11), we read his 

 erant finitimi pari scelere et audacia Tebarani, who cannot be the other- 

 wise known Tebarani, who lived in the north of Pontus, bordering on 

 the Euxine, so that we must suppose a Tebarani (or Tibaraoi as some 

 codices have) with a town Tyba or Tiba (or Tibara) in Cyrrhestica, a 

 district between Mount Araanus and the Euphrates. 



Att. V. 18. 1. — Ne quid inter caesa et porrecta, ut aiunt, oneris 

 mild addatur aut temporis. 



See Marquardt, Staatsvertvaltung iii. 178. The victim was slain in 

 the morning ; the exta offered in the evening. That was the normal 

 course ; but something might happen during the day to prevent the 

 successful completion of the sacrifice. Similarly, Cicero's Governor- 

 ship was normally of a year's duration, and he is anxious that nothing- 

 may intervene to prevent the successful completion of it at the end of 

 the bare year. The saying is accordingly used of an untoward event 

 which intervenes during the progress of an afi'air, and thus prevents 

 its normal termination. 



V. 18. 4. — Sed iam exhibeo pupillum neque defendo. 



The word exhiiere is often used in the Digest for 'producing' in 

 public aperson for whom you are responsible : e.g. ii. 4.17 eumpro qua 

 quis apud officium cavit exhihere cogitur \ cf. xliii. 29, 3. 8 '■ exhilere'' 

 est in publicum producere et videndi tangendique hominis facultatem 

 praehere : proprie autem ' exhihere ' est extra secretum habere. Here 

 Cicero says that he will ' produce ' Ariobarzanes, whom he facetiously 

 calls his ward, and let him plead his own case: cf. Dig. xxvi. 7. 1. 2 

 Sufficit tutoribus ad plenam defensionem, sive ipsi iudicimn suscipiant 



