M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 116

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[116] 40 videte iam porro cetera, iudices, ut intellegatis fingi maleficium nullum¹ posse quo iste sese non contaminarit. in rebus minoribus socium fallere turpissimum est aequeque turpe atque illud de quo ante dixi; neque iniuria, propterea quod auxilium sibi se putat adiunxisse qui eum altero rem communicavit. ad cuius igitur fidem confugiet, cum per eius fidem laeditur cui se commiserit? atque² ea sunt animadvertenda peccata maxime quae difficillime praecaventur. tecti esse ad alienos possumus, intimi³ multa apertiora videant necesse est; socium cavere qui possumus? quem etiam si metuimus, ius offici laedimus. recte igitur maiores cum qui socium fefellisset in virorum bonorum numero non putarunt haberi oportere.

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.) — 116 focus

[116] Moreover, consider now, O judges, the other matters, that you may see that no crime can be imagined with which that fellow has not disgraced himself. In less important matters, to deceive one's partner is a most shameful thing, and equally base with that which I have mentioned before. And rightly; because he who has communicated an affair to another thinks that he has procured assistance for himself. To whose good faith, then, shall a man have recourse who is injured by the want of faith in the man whom he has trusted? But these offences are to be punished with the greatest severity which are guarded against with the greatest difficulty. We can be reserved towards strangers; intimate friends must see many things more openly; but how can we guard against a companion? for even to be afraid of him is to do violence to the rights of duty. Our ancestors therefore rightly thought that he who had deceived his companion ought not to be considered in the number of good men.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. maleficum nullum fingi s, Halm

2. atqui σχψ

3. intumi (-temi A) mei

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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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