M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 153

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[153] 53 quod si id vos suscipitis et eam ad rem¹ operam vestram profitemini, si idcirco sedetis ut ad vos adducantur eorum liberi quorum bona venierunt, cavete, per deos immortalis! iudices, ne nova et multo crudelior per vos proscriptio instaurata esse videatur. illam priorem quae facta est in eos qui arma capere potuerunt tamen senatus suscipere noluit, ne quid acrius quam more maiorum comparatum est² publico consilio factum videretur, hanc vero quae ad eorum liberos atque ad infantium puerorum incunabula pertinet nisi hoc iudicio a vobis reicitis et aspernamini, videte, per deos immortalis! quem in locum rem publicam perventuram putetis!

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.) — 153 focus

[153] And if you also undertake that cause; if you offer your aid in that business; if you sit there in order that the children of those men whose goods have been sold may be brought before you; beware, in God's name, O judges, lest a new and much more cruel proscription shall seem to have been commenced by you. Though the former one was directed against those who could take arms, yet the Senate would not adopt it lest anything should appear to be done by the public authority more severe than had been established by the usages of our ancestors. And unless you by your sentence reject and spurn from yourselves this one which concerns their children and the cradles of their infant babes, consider, in God's name, O judges, to what a state you think the republic will arrive.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. eam ad rem Gulielmius: eadem (eandem φχ) rem (esse A) codd.: ea de re Reid

2. est ed. R: om. codd.: esset Rinkes

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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

nostra ,

nobis : identifying himself with his Client.

si . . . habet , if he is not content (lit. does not regard [it] as enough).

nisi , etc., unless his cruelty is also sated with blood (lit. blood is furnished to his cruelty).

hoc tempore , in these times .

versata est , has prevailed .

versari , live.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 153

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