M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 104

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[104] quid? tu, vir optime, ecquid¹ habes quod dicas? mihi ausculta: vide ne tibi desis; tua quoque res permagna agitur. multa scelerate, multa audaciter², multa improbe fecisti, unum stultissime, profecto tua sponte non de Eruci sententia: nihil opus fuit te istic sedere³. neque enim accusatore muto neque teste quisquam utitur eo qui de accusatoris subsellio surgit. huc accedit quod paulo tamen occultior atque tectior vestra ista cupiditas esset. nunc quid⁴ est quod quisquam ex vobis audire desideret, eum quae facitis eius modi sint ut ea dedita opera a nobis⁵ contra vosmet ipsos facere videamini? age nunc illa videamus, iudices, quae statim consecuta sunt.

Pro S. Roscio Amerino. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1908.

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Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino (Latin) (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 1. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908.)

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For Sextus Roscius of Ameria Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 1. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1903.) — 104 focus

[104] What do you want, O most excellent man? Have you anything to say? Listen to me. Take care not to be wanting to yourself; your own interest to a great extent is at stake. You have done many things wickedly, many things audaciously, many things scandalously; one thing foolishly, and that of your own accord, not by the advice of Erucius. There was no need for you to sit there. For no man employs a dumb accuser, or calls him as a witness, who rises from the accuser's bench. There must be added to this, that that cupidity of yours should have been a little more kept back and concealed. Now what is there that any one of you desire to hear, when what you do is such that you seem to have done them expressly for our advantage against your own interest?

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. quid tu vir omptume ecquid ς: etquid tu vir optime A

2. audaciter Priscian. ( K. iii. 28): audacter codd. ( cf. Cael.. 13)

3. istic sedere Hotoman: isti credere codd.

4. numquid Pascal

5. nobis ς B, Lambinus: vobis cett.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 104

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