M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, 73

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[73] Is it that you do not see what the cause really is, or before whom it is being pleaded? The cause in question is parricide; which cannot be undertaken without many motives; and it is being tried before very wise men, who are aware that no one commits the very slightest crime without any motive whatever. 27 Be it so; you are unable to allege any motive. Although I ought at once to gain my cause, yet I will not insist on this, and I will concede to you in this cause what I would not concede in another, relying on this man's innocence. I do not ask you why Sextus Roscius killed his father; I ask you how he killed him? So I ask of you, O Caius Erucius, how, and I will so deal with you, that I will on this topic give you leave to answer me or to interrupt me, or even, if you wish to at all, to ask me questions.

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.) — 73 focus

[73] Vtrum quid agatur non vides, an apud quos agatur? agitur de parricidio quod sine multis causis suscipi non potest; apud homines autem prudentissimos agitur qui intellegunt neminem ne minimum quidem maleficium sine causa admittere.

27 esto, causam proferre non potes. tametsi statim vicisse debeo, tamen de meo¹ iure decedam et tibi quod in alia causa non concederem in hac concedam fretus huius innocentia. non quaero abs te qua re patrem Sex. Roscius occiderit, quaero quo modo occiderit. ita quaero abs te, C. G ai Eruci: quo modo, et sic tecum agam ut meo loco vel respondendi vel interpellandi tibi potestatem faciam vel etiam, si quid voles, interrogandi.

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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

porro . . . conveniret , could naturally fall (really in the same constr. as

pertineret , l. 1, above).

judicio (abl. of means), on the trial (more lit. by the court).

potuisset , subj. of characteristic (in direct disc.

potuerit ).

non modo . . . possunt , not only cannot, etc.: § 327 , 1 (219, a); B. 343, 2, a; G. 482, R.1; H. 656, 3 (552, 2); H.-B. 299; the verb is sufficiently negatived by

ne .

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