M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 21

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[21] 8 ne diutius teneam¹, iudices, societas coitur. cum nulla iam proscriptionis mentio fieret², cum etiam qui³ antea metuerant redirent ac iam defunctos sese periculis arbitrarentur, nomen refertur in tabulas Sex. Rosci⁴, hominis studiosissimi nobilitatis; manceps fit Chrysogonus; tria praedia vel nobilissima Capitoni propria traduntur, quae hodie possidet; in reliquas omnis fortunas iste T. T itus Roscius nomine Chrysogoni, quem ad modum ipse dicit, impetum facit. haec⁵ omnia, iudices, imprudente L. L ucio Sulla facta esse certo⁶ scio.

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.) — 21 focus

[21] As at this time there was no mention of a proscription, and as even those who had been afraid of it before, were returning and thinking themselves now delivered from their dangers, the name of Sextus Roscius, a man most zealous for the nobility, is proscribed and his goods sold; Chrysogonus is the purchaser; three of his finest farms, are given to Capito for his own, and he possesses them to this day; all the rest of his property that fellow Titus Roscius seizes in the name of Chrysogonus, as he says himself. This property, worth six millions of sesterces, is bought for two thousand. I well know, O judges, that all this was done without the knowledge of Lucius Sulla;

Notes on the current edition

Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. diutius vos teneam ed. V

2. cum nulla... fieret Charisius ( K. i. 264) Diomedes ( K. i. 390): cum... nulla fieret codd.

3. qui omnes qui Diomedes

4. nomen... Rosci Charisius et Diomedes, om. codd.

5. facit haec bona emuntur sestertiorum duobus milibus nummum add. codd. ( ex §6): del. Kayser

6. certo s: certe mei

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

hic , this man (with a gesture), i.e. here at my side (my client) ;

iste , that man, i.e. there on the accusers' bench (Magnus).

cum . . . esset : parenthetical (repeating, in greater detail, the clause that precedes).

iste : T. Roscius Magnus ; the repetition of the words

frequens , etc., emphasizes the suggestion that he was likeliest to be the murderer.

Palacinas : the reading is uncertain, and the place unknown.

hunc , i.e. my client.

judicatote : § 449 (269, d) ; B. 281, 1, a ; G. 268, 2 ; H.560, 4 (487, 2); H.-B. 496. The second or longer form of the imperative is regular where the action is not to be performed immediately, especially when a future appears in protasis: § 516 , d (307, d); B. 302,4; G. 595; H.580 (508,4); cf. H.-B. 582, 1.

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