M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, 32

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[32] Who, indeed, is of so profligate a disposition, as, when he sees these things, to be able to be silent and to disregard them? You have murdered my father when he had not been proscribed; you have classed him when murdered in the number of proscribed persons; you have driven me by force from my house; you are in possession of my patrimony. What would you more? have you not come even before the bench with sword and arms, that you may either convict Sextus Roscius or murder him in this presence?

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.) — 32 focus

[32] etenim quis tam dissoluto animo est qui haec cum videat tacere ac neglegere possit? patrem meum, cum proscriptus non esset, iugulastis, occisum in proscriptorum numerum rettulistis, me domo mea per vim expulistis, patrimonium meum possidetis. quid voltis amplius? etiamne ad subsellia cum ferro atque telis venistis ut hic aut iuguletis aut condemnetis¹?

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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

ipse percussit , did he strike the fatal blow himself?

ipsum , sc. percussisse.

per alios : for abl. of means, when persons are intended, see § 405 , b (246, b) ; G. 401; H.468, 3 (415,1, N.1); H.-B. 380, d.

indidemne Ameria , from Ameria there ? (lit. the someplace).

hosce sicarios , these cut-throats here of ours.

convenit , i.e. to bargain for the murder.

unde , i.e. on whom did he draw for the money ? All such banking business being in a manner public, the sum could be traced, as by cheques and the like in modern times.

caput , fountain-head .

tibi , dat. instead of poss. gen.: § 377 (235, a); B. 181, I, N.; G. 350, I; H. 425, 4, N. (384, 4, N.2); H.-B. 368.

veniat , with

facito ( fac) for simple imperat.: § 449 , c (269, g) ; cf. G. 553, I ; cf. H. 561, 2 (489, 2). The fut. form of the imperat. is used, because the accuser is bidden to reflect on the point raised, so that there is a distinct reference to future time: § 449 (269, d); B. 281, 1, a; G. 268, 2; H. 560, 4 (487, 2); H.-B. 496.

agrestem , boorish (see next clause).

in oppido constitisse , stayed in any town; oppidum is distinguished both from urbs, the great city, and vicus, a country village; it would be a place of some society and cultivation.

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