M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 29

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

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Current edition Perseus

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

Editions (1)
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino Perseus (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 1. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.) — 29 focus

Commentary

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

cum , etc.: the proscriptions nominally ceased June 1, B.C. 81 ; the murder was committed some months after this date (see below sect. 39 ).

jam , already (with reference to time preceding) ; nunc would refer only to the moment itself.

defunctos , rid of, sc. esse.

studiosissimi . devoted to the party of Sulla, and so not likely to be proscribed (see note to sect. 6 . p. 3, l. 32 . above).

vel (emphasizing the superlative), the very , etc.

propria , as his own .

iste , yonder, on the accusers benches.

nomine , i.e. as agent.

impetum facit , makes a raid upon, implying violence, as of a charge in battle.

duobus milibus nummum , i.e. about $100: § 633 (378) ; H.757 (647) ; H.-B. 675, I. They are estimated in ch ii to have been worth $300,000.