M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 141

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[141] hic ne¹ etiam sese putat aliquid posse Chrysogonus? hicne² etiam potens esse volt? O rem miseram atque acerbam! neque me hercules hoc indigne fero, quod verear ne quid possit, verum quod ausus est, quod speravit sese apud talis viros aliquid ad perniciem posse³ innocentis, id ipsum queror. 49 idcircone exspectata⁴ nobilitas armis atque ferro rem publicam reciperavit⁵ ut ad libidinem suam liberti servolique nobilium bona fortunas arasque nostras⁶ vexare possent?

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.) — 141 focus

[141] Does Chrysogonus think that in this particular too he has some influence? Does her even wish to be powerful in this? O miserable and bitter circumstance! Nor, in truth, am I indignant at this, because I am afraid that he may have some influence; but I complain of the mere fact of his having dared this, of his having hoped that with such men as these he could have any influence to the injury of an innocent man. 49 Is it for this that the nobility has roused itself, that it has recovered the republic by arms and the sword—in order that freedmen and slaves might be able to maltreat the property of the nobles, and all your fortunes and ours, at their pleasure?

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. hicine Halm

2. hicne scripsi: hic... ς: hic cett.

3. posse χψ: om. cett. mei ( ante ad hab. s): valiturum Halm (2)

4. experrecta Angelius

5. reciperarit A ψ1

6. fortunas arasque nostras scripsi ( cf. §23, dom. 109, Sest. 145): fortunas vestrasque nostras ς: fortunas vestras atque nostras (vestras nostrasque σχ) cett.: fortunasque nostras Garatoni

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

facis injuriam , i.e. you do wrong (i.e. to Sulla).

majorem spem : in this and the preceding sentence Cicero artfully suggests that Chrysogonus has no confidence that Sulla's constitution will last, and that he therefore wishes to remove a dangerous claimant in case of another political overturn. This insinuation would, of course, tend to prejudice the partisans of Sulla against Chrysogonus.

cruenta (pred.): the expression of the thought is made more vivid by the use of words exactly appropriate to the killing of a man and the stripping (

detrahere ) of his dead body.

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