This is the first-full scale commentary in English, including a revised Latin text and a fresh English translation of Cicero's speeches, known as Post reditum in senatu and Post reditum ad Quirites, as well as the spurious speech Pridie quam in exilium iret which have suffered from neglect in scholarship and doubts about their authenticity.

Gesine Manuwald is a Professor of Latin in the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London (UCL). After starting her academic career in Germany, she has been working at UCL since 2007. Her current research interests include Roman oratory of the Republican period, early Roman drama, Roman epic, and the reception of classical antiquity, especially in Neo-Latin literature and the dramatic arts. She has published widely on all these areas.

• 1: INTRODUCTION


• 1.1: Previous scholarship and this commentary


• 1.2: The historical background


• 1.3: Cicero's Post reditum speeches


• 1.4: The spurious Oratio pridie quam in exilium iret


• 1.5: Text and translation


• 2: LATIN TEXT AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION


• 2.1: Testimonia


• 2.2: M. Tulli Ciceronis post reditum in senatu oratio


• 2.3: M. Tulli Ciceronis post reditum ad Quirites oratio


• 2.4: [M. Tulli Ciceronis] Oratio pridie quam in exilium iret


• 3: COMMENTARY


• 3.1: Testimonia


• 3.2: M. Tulli Ciceronis post reditum in senatu oratio


• 3.3: M. Tulli Ciceronis post reditum ad Quirites oratio


• 3.4: [M. Tulli Ciceronis] Oratio pridie quam in exilium iret


• References and Abbreviatoins