M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, 14

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[14] He is the defendant, who remains as the only one left after the impious slaughter committed by them. And that you may be the more easily able to understand, O judges, that what has been done is still more infamous than what we mention, we will explain to you from the beginning how the matter was managed, so that you may the more easily be able to perceive both the misery of this most innocent man, and their audacity, and the calamity of the republic.

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.) — 14 focus

[14] atque ut facilius intellegere possitis, iudices, ea quae facta sunt indigniora esse quam haec sunt quae dicimus, ab initio res quem ad modum gesta sit vobis¹ exponemus, quo facilius et huius hominis innocentissimi miserias et illorum audacias² cognoscere possitis et rei publicae calamitatem.

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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

iter , right of way, such as was usually reserved in case of the sale of any estate on which was a family burial-place ; by the proscription this right was cut off.

bonorum emptio : the technical term denoting purchase at public sale.

furta refers to

clam ;

rapinae to

palam , above.

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