M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 127

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[127] 44 in quem hoc dicam quaeris, Eruci? non in eum quem vis et putas; nam Sullam et oratio mea ab initio et ipsius eximia virtus omni tempore purgavit. ego haec omnia Chrysogonum fecisse dico, ut ementiretur, ut malum civem Sex. Roscium¹ fuisse fingeret, ut eum apud adversarios occisum esse diceret, ut his de² rebus a legatis Amerinorum doceri L. L ucium Sullam passus non sit. denique etiam illud suspicor, omnino haec bona non venisse; id quod postea, si per vos, iudices, licitum erit, aperietur.

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.) — 127 focus

[127] You ask, against whom do I say this, O Erucius. Not against him whom you are meaning and thinking of; for both my speech from the very beginning, and also I is own eminent virtue, at all times has acquitted Sulla. I say that Chrysogonus did all this in order to tell lies; in order to make out Roscius to have been a bad citizen; in order to represent him as slain among the opposite party; in order to prevent Lucius Sulla from being rightly informed of these matters by the deputies from Ameria. Last of all, I suspect that this property was never sold at all; and this matter I will open presently, O judges, if you will give me leave.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. Sex. Ernesti: om. codd.

2. his de ed. R. Stephani: hisce codd.: hisce de Ascens. (2)

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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

quod animadversum est (impers.)

in eos , that those have been punished (a euphemistic expression for the proscription). Observe the chiastic order of ideas ; (a) the punishment ; (b) the persons on whom it was inflicted; (b1) the persons rewarded; (a1) the reward.

quae , referring to both the punishment and the reward just spoken of.

in eo studio partium , in favor of that party:

studium is the regular word for siding with a particular party.

id actum est , this was the object .

idcirco , antecedent to the purpose clause.

ut . . . facerent , purpose clause in appos. with id.

postremi , the lowest (in class or character).

tum vero : here the apodosis begins.

nihil horum est, none of these things is true (i.e. is the fact).

ornabitur . Nothing can exceed the skill with which, throughout this oration, Cicero keeps before the minds of the jury the distinction between the great cause of Sulla and the nobility and the unscrupulous greed of some of Sulla's partisans. His continual allusions to his client's hereditary friendships with the aristocracy have this end, among others, in view.

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