M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, 46

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[46] If fortune did not give to you to know the father whose son you are, so that you could understand what was the affection of fathers towards their children; still, at all events, nature has given you no small share of human feeling. To this is added a zeal for learning, so that you are not unversed in literature. Does that old man in Caecilius, (to quote a play,) appear to have less affection for Eutychus, his son, who lives in the country, than for his other one Chaerestratus? for that, I think, is his name; do you think that he keeps one with him in the city do him honour, and sends the other into the country in order to punish him?

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.) — 46 focus

[46] si tibi fortuna non dedit ut patre certo nascerere ex quo intellegere posses qui animus patrius in liberos esset, at natura certe dedit ut humanitatis non parum haberes; eo accessit studium doctrinae ut ne a litteris quidem alienus esses. ecquid¹ tandem tibi videtur, ut ad fabulas veniamus, senex ille Caecilianus minoris facere Eutychum, filium rusticum, quam illum alterum, Chaerestratum? — nam, ut opinor, hoc nomine est — alterum in urbe secum honoris causa habere, alterum rus supplici causa relegasse?

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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

exspectata , so long waited for. For some years ( B.C. 87-83), while Sulla was in the East, the Marian faction had full control at Rome, and a reign of terror prevailed.

servoli , diminutive of contempt.

bona , estates;

fortunas (more generally), wealth.

id actum est : cf. p. 19, l. 22 .

sententia , often refers to political opinions.

inermis , i.e. had he taken up arms, his regret would have been deeper.

cuique , to every man in proportion as he is, etc.: § 313 , b (93, c); cf. B. 252,5, c; G. 318, ; H. 515, 2 (458, I); H.-B. 278, 2, b.

probe novit : note the strong sarcasm, which points the distinction between the noble cause which was at stake and the sordid motives of Chrysogonus.

resistetur , impersonal.

ille : here indefinite, referring to the supposed person who thinks himself attacked.

rationem , interests (so that what touches one touches the other): a mercantile figure, as we might say, "who thinks his accounts are mixed up with his."

laeditur , etc., is injured by being separated, etc.

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