M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, 40

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[40] What was it then which inspired Sextus Roscius with such madness as that? Oh, says he, he did not please his father. He did not please his father? For what reason? for it must have been both a just and an important and a notorious reason. For as this is incredible, that death should be inflicted on a father by a son, without many and most weighty reasons; so this, too, is not probable, that a son should be hated by his father, without many and important and necessary causes.

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.) — 40 focus

[40] quae res igitur tantum istum furorem sex. Roscio obiecit? patri inquit non placebat.¹ patri non placebat? quam ob causam? necesse est enim eam quoque iustam et magnam et perspicuam fuisse. nam ut illud incredibile est, mortem oblatam esse patri a filio sine plurimis et maximis causis, sic hoc veri simile non est, odio fuisse parenti filium sine causis multis et magnis et necessariis.

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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

partim . . . pro me , partly in my own name. To avoid entangling the case of his client with politics, Cicero makes himself responsible for everything that may have a political bearing ; he was a well-known partisan of the nobility and could afford to speak freely.

quae-que : not from

quisque .

ad omnis pertinere , concerns all .

sensu ac dolore , feeling and pain, i.e. painful feeling (so-called hendiadys).

jam , with the fut., presently.

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