M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 55

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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.) — 55 focus

Notes on the current edition

For Sextus Roscius of Ameria

1. The Remmia Lex fixed the punishment for calumnia; but it is not known when this law was passed, nor what were its penalties, Smith, Dict Ant. v. Calumnia.

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

an vero , or can it be true that, etc. In this use of an, the first question is omitted, and the second is often a reductio ad absurdum, as here. The full thought is, " Do you not agree with me, or can it really (

vero ) be?" etc. See § 335 , b (211, b) ; B. 162, 4, a; G. 457, I ; H. 380, 3 (353, N.4) ; H.-B. 236.

agi , is their object (

aliquid

agere is to aim at something).

ut . . . tollantur , that . . . be got rid of in one way or another.

in vestro jurejurando , i.e. in the severity which your oath might seem to bind you to exercise.

periculo , the case (often used with reference to defendants).

ad quem . . . pertineat , i.e. on whom the suspicion rests.

sectorem . . . accusatorem , i.e. T. Roscius Magnus, at once purchaser, enemy, cut-throat, and accuser.