M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, 25

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[25] Therefore a decree of their senate is, immediately passed, that the ten chief men ¹ should go to Lucius Sulla, and explain to him what a man Sextus Roscius had been; should complain of the wickedness and outrages of those fellows, should entreat him to see to the preservation both of the character of the dead man, and of the fortunes of his innocent son, And observe, I entreat you, this decree— [here the decree is read] —The deputies come to the camp. It is now seen, O judges, as I said before, that these crimes and atrocities were committed without the knowledge of Lucius Sulla. For immediately Chrysogonus himself comes to them, and sends some men of noble birth to them too, to beg them not to go to Sulla, and to promise them that Chrysogonus, will do everything which they wish.

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.) — 25 focus

[25] itaque decurionum decretum statim fit ut decem primi proficiscantur ad L. L ucium Sullam doceantque eum qui vir Sex. Roscius fuerit, conquerantur de istorum scelere et iniuriis, orent ut et illius mortui famam et fili innocentis fortunas conservatas velit. atque ipsum decretum, quaeso, cognoscite. DECRETVM DECVRIONVM. legati in castra veniunt. intellegitur, iudices, id quod¹ iam ante dixi, imprudente L. L ucio Sulla scelera haec et flagitia fieri. nam statim Chrysogonus et ipse ad eos accedit et homines nobilis adlegat² qui peterent ne ad Sullam adirent, et omnia Chrysogonum quae vellent esse facturum pollicerentur.

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For Sextus Roscius of Ameria

1. The decuriones were the senators in a colony. Only a decuric could be a magistrate, and their body possessed whatever power had once belonged to the community. Smith, Dict. Ant. v. Colonia.

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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

sint , exist.

exstent : Cf. note on

ostendatur , above.

expressa vestigia , distinct footprints.

ratione , manner, i.e. the whole plan of the act.

suspicionibus : governed by

reclamitat , which, on account of its meaning, takes an indir. obj.

esse , that there should be, etc.

feras : notice the emphatic position. The emphasis may be expressed in English either by changing the verb to the passive (in order to keep

feras at the beginning of the clause) or by turning thus: even in the case of wild beasts, etc.

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