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.)
Translations (1)
For Sextus Roscius of Ameria Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 1. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1903.) — 14 focus
[14] He is the defendant, who remains as the only one left after the impious slaughter committed by them. And that you may be the more easily able to understand, O judges, that what has been done is still more infamous than what we mention, we will explain to you from the beginning how the matter was managed, so that you may the more easily be able to perceive both the misery of this most innocent man, and their audacity, and the calamity of the republic.
Notes on the current edition
Pro S. Roscio Amerino
1.
vobis
om. A
2.
audacias
ς (
cf. Verr. iii. 208,
Sull. 76): audaciam
cett.
Commentary
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
iter , right of way, such as was usually reserved in case of the sale of any estate on which was a family burial-place ; by the proscription this right was cut off.
bonorum emptio : the technical term denoting purchase at public sale.
furta refers to
clam ;
rapinae to
palam , above.