M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 145

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[145] 50 praedia mea tu possides, ego aliena misericordia vivo; concedo, et quod animus aequus est et¹ quia necesse est. mea domus tibi patet, mihi clausa est; fero. familia mea maxima tu uteris², ego servum habeo nullum; patior et ferendum puto. quid vis amplius? quid insequeris, quid oppugnas? qua in re tuam voluntatem laedi a me putas? ubi tuis commodis officio? quid tibi obsto? si spoliorum causa vis hominem occidere, spoliasti³; quid quaeris amplius? si inimicitiarum, quae sunt tibi inimicitiae cum eo cuius ante praedia possedisti quam ipsum cognosti⁴? si metus⁵, ab eone aliquid metuis quem vides ipsum ab se tam atrocem iniuriam propulsare non posse? sin, quod⁶ bona quae Rosci⁷ fuerunt tua facta sunt, idcirco hunc illius filium studes perdere, nonne ostendis id te vereri quod praeter ceteros tu metuere non debeas⁸ ne quando liberis proscriptorum bona patria reddantur?

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.) — 145 focus

[145] “You are in possession of my farms,” says he; “I am living on the charity of others; I do not object to that, both because I have a calm mind, and because it is inevitable. My own house is open to you, and is closed against myself. I endure that. You are master of my numerous household; I have not one slave. I submit to that, and think it is to be borne.” What would you have more? What are you aiming at? Why are you attacking me now? In what point do you think your desires injured by me? In what point do I stand in the way of your advantage? In what do I hinder you? If you wish to slay the man for the sake of his spoils, you have despoiled him. What do you want more? If you want to slay him out of enmity, what enmity have you against him whose farms you took possession of before you knew himself? If you fear him, can you fear anything from him who you see is unable to ward off so atrocious an injury from himself? If, because the possessions which belonged to Roscius have become yours, on that account you seek to destroy his son, do you not show that you are afraid of that which you above all other men ought not to be afraid of; namely, that sometime or other their father's property may be restored to the children of proscribed persons?

Notes on the current edition

Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. est et Angelius: esset codd.

2. maxima tu uteris w: maximat uteris ς: maxima uteris cett.

3. spoliasti om. χ

4. cognovisti w, Halm

5. si metus Madvig: sin metuis codd.

6. quod Naugerius: om. codd.

7. Sex. Rosci Richter

8. debeas ς: debebas Heusinger

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

rem tuam , your interests .

quasi . . . nescias , as if you did not know: § 524 (312); B. 307, I and 2 ; G. 602 ; H. 584, 2 (513, ii and N.1) ; H.-B. 504, 3 and a.

spectatissima , most estimable; the friends of Roscius are purposely exalted, in order to influence the court.

cum , concessive.

cum esset , though she was, etc.

femina ,

mulier : observe the distinction between the words, the latter being always used in speaking of the tenderness of the feminine nature.

quanto : translate however much (though the Latin is definite) ; the usual correlative is supplied by

non minora , fully as great .

M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 145

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