2 quibus ortus sis: espec. his grandfather M. Antonius, the famous orator, whom Cicero held in great esteem.
5 adulescens, i.e. in 63 B.C., when he was in his 44th year.
8 repraesentari = be realised, won now and here.—Jebb.
11 templo, i.e. Concordiae. Cic. refers to In Catil. iv.
The Peroration. ‘Such a passage speaks to us with a living impression of unity and directness which we acknowledge without question. We admire and ask for nothing more.’—Nettleship.
[B.] On the Murder of Cicero, by order of Antonius.
Par scelus admisit Phariis Antonius armis:
Abscidit voltus ensis uterque sacros.
Illud, laurigeros ageres cum laeta triumphos,
Hoc tibi, Roma, caput, cum loquereris, erat.