Pro S. Roscio Amerino. M. Tullius Cicero. London. 1903.
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Pro S. Roscio Amerino. M. Tullius Cicero. London. 1903.
Sponsored by Perseus Project, Tufts University.
Funding provided by National Endowment For The Humanities (NEH).
For Sextus Roscius of Ameria (English) (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 1. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1903.)
aureum : the Greek name Chrysogonus means gold-born.
latuit : because his was the only name that appeared.
alii quoque , i.e. other purchasers of confiscated estates.
ut mihi , etc., i.e. I have no occasion to say anything of the purchasers of confiscated estates in general, for this case, by its atrocity, is taken out of the common category (
haec enim causa , etc., 1.24, below).
sectorum : these were the purchasers of confiscated property in the lump, who afterwards divided it ( seco) to sell again in detail.