M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 119

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[119] 41 etenim, quoniam fidem magistri cognostis, cognoscite¹ nunc discipuli aequitatem. dixi iam antea saepe numero postulatos esse ab istis duos servos in quaestionem. tu semper, T. T iti Rosci, recusasti. quaero abs te: Eine qui postulabant indigni erant qui impetrarent, an is te² non commovebat pro quo postulabant, an res ipsa tibi iniqua videbatur? postulabant homines nobilissimi atque integerrimi nostrae civitatis quos iam antea nominavi; qui ita vixerunt talesque a populo Romano putantur ut quicquid dicerent nemo esset qui non aequum putaret. postulabant autem pro homine miserrimo atque infelicissimo qui vel ipse sese in cruciatum dari cuperet, dum de patris morte quaereretur.

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.) — 119 focus

[119] Now forsooth, since you have seen the good faith of the master, listen to the justice of the pupil. I have already said before, that two slaves have been continually begged of them to be put to the question. You have always refused it, O Titus Roscius. I ask of you whether they who asked it were unworthy to obtain it? or had he, on whose behalf they asked it, no influence with you? or did the matter itself appear unjust? The most noble and respectable men of our state, whom I have named before, made the request, who have lived in such a manner, and are so esteemed by the Roman people, that there is no one who would not think whatever they said reasonable. And they made the request on behalf of a most miserable and unfortunate man, who would wish even himself to be submitted to the torture, provided the inquiry into his father's death might go on.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. cognoscitis A πσφ

2. is te Heusinger: iste codd.

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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

ego , opposed to Roscio.

diem : fem.; § 97 , a (73); B. 53; G. 64; H.135(123); H.-B. 101.

praefinita , fixed in advance, as the limit ( finio).

patronum , i.e. Sulla see note on

libertum , p. 6, l. 10 .

conferre , throw the responsibility for.

egerit , will effect, fut. perf. for fut.: § 516 , C, N. (307, c, R.) ; G. 244; H. 540 (473); cf. H.-B. 490.

imprudente : cf. p. 5, l. 28 .

M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 119

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