M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 13

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[13] etenim quid aliud hoc iudicio temptatur nisi ut id fieri liceat? accusant ei qui in fortunas huius invaserunt, causam dicit is cui praeter calamitatem nihil reliquerunt; accusant ei quibus occidi patrem Sex. Rosci bono fuit, causam dicit is cui non modo luctum mors patris attulit verum etiam egestatem; accusant ei qui hunc ipsum¹ iugulare summe cupierunt, causam dicit is qui etiam ad hoc ipsum iudicium cum praesidio venit ne hic ibidem ante oculos vestros trucidetur; denique accusant ei quos populus poscit, causam dicit is qui unus relictus ex illorum nefaria caede restat.

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.) — 13 focus

[13] In truth, what else is aimed at by this trial, except that it may be lawful to commit such acts? They are the accusers who have invaded this man's fortunes. He is pleading his cause as defendant, to whom these men have left nothing except misfortune. They are the accusers, to whom it was an advantage that the father of Sextus Roscius should be put to death. He is the defendant, to whom the death of his father has brought not only grief, but also poverty. They are the accusers, who have exceedingly desired to put this man himself to death. He is the defendant who has come even to this very trial with a guard, lest he should be slain here in this very place, before your eyes. Lastly, they are the accusers whom the people demand punishment on, as the guilty parties.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. ipsum ipsi coni. Halm

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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

qui . . . solvisset though he had not yet etc: § 535 e (320, e); B. 283, 3; G. 634; H. 593, 2 (515, iii) H. B. 533.

omnia . . . justa , all the due rites of burial these ended with a sacrifice on the ninth day ( novemdialia) after the death or burial ;

paterno funeri is indir obj. of

solvisset (lit had not yet paid all due rites to his father's funeral)

pecuniae , property

qui (causal) . . .

fuisset since he had been etc.: § 535 , e (320, e); B. 283, 3; G. 633; H. 592 (517); H. B. 523.

ut fit , as generally happens.

insolens , here wasteful and extravagant.

domum suam : § 428 , k (258, b, N.1); G. 337, R. 3; H.419 (380, 2); H.-B. 454, I.

auferebat , began to, etc.: § 471 , C (277, c) ; B. 259, 2; G. 233 ; H.535, 3 (469, 3); cf. H.-B. 484.

urbe tota : § 429 ,2 (258,f 2); B. 228, 1, b; G. 388; H. 455, I (425, ii, 2); H.-B. 436, a.

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