M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, 138

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[138] But the ease is totally different: nothing of this, O judges, is the truth: the cause of the nobility will not only not be injured if you resist these men, but it will even be embellished. 48 In truth, they who are inclined to find fault with this complain that Chrysogonus has so much influence; they who praise it, declare that he has not so much allowed him. And now it is impossible for any one to be either so foolish or so worthless as to say: “I wish it were allowed me, I would have said...” You may say... “I would have done...” You may do... No one hinders you. “I would have decreed...” “Decree, only decree rightly, every one will approve.” “I should have judged...” All will praise you if you judge rightly and properly.

Pro S. Roscio Amerino. M. Tullius Cicero. London. 1903.

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For Sextus Roscius of Ameria (English) (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 1. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1903.)

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Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino Perseus (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 1. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.) — 138 focus

[138] verum longe aliter est; nil horum est, iudices. non modo non laedetur¹ causa nobilitatis, si istis hominibus resistetis, verum etiam ornabitur. 48 etenim qui haec vituperare volunt² Chrysogonum tantum posse queruntur; qui laudare volunt concessum ei non esse commemorant. ac iam nihil est quod quisquam aut tam stultus aut tam improbus sit qui dicat³: vellem quidem liceret; hoc dixissem. dicas licet. hoc fecissem. facias licet; nemo prohibet. hoc decrevissem. decerne⁴, modo recte; omnes approbabunt. hoc iudicassem. laudabunt omnes, si recte et ordine iudicaris.

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Notes on Pro S. Roscio Amerino (Select Orations of Cicero (Allen and Greenough's Edition). Greenough, James Bradstreet; Kittredge, George Lyman, editors. Boston, London: Ginn & Company, 1897.) focus

quod . . . quia : § 540 (321); B. 286, I; G. 540; H. 588, 1(516, i) ; H.-B. 554,555.

praeter ceteros , more than anybody else.

ne quando : i.e. some time when there comes a political reaction.

patria , of their fathers .

M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 138

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