M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 23

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[23] interea iste T. Roscius, vir optimus, procurator Chrysogoni, Ameriam venit, in praedia huius invadit, hunc miserum, luctu perditum¹, qui nondum etiam omnia paterno funeri iusta solvisset, nudum eicit² domo atque focis patriis disque penatibus praecipitem, iudices, exturbat³, ipse amplissimae pecuniae fit dominus. qui in sua re fuisset egentissimus, erat, ut fit, insolens in aliena⁴; multa palam domum suam auferebat, plura clam de medio removebat, non pauca suis adiutoribus large effuseque donabat, reliqua constituta auctione vendebat.

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.) — 23 focus

[23] In the meantime Titus Roscius, excellent man, the agent of Chrysogonus, comes to Ameria ; he enters on this man's farm; turns this miserable man, overwhelmed with grief, who had not yet performed all the ceremonies of his father's funeral, naked out of his house, and drives him headlong from his paternal hearth and household gods; he himself becomes the owner of abundant wealth. He who had been in great poverty when he had only his own property, became, as is usual, insolent when in possession of the property of another; he carried many things openly off to his own house; he removed still more privily; he gave no little abundantly and extravagantly to his assistants; the rest he sold at a regular auction.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. perditum w: praeditum (pro- π) cett.

2. eicit ed. V, Sylvius: eiecit codd.

3. iudices exturbat πφ1ψω: iudices sex (Sex. A) turbat ς αχ: Sex. Ro. ( om. Ro. ψ2) iud. exturbat σψ2

4. aliena Arusian. ( K. vii. 486): alienam codd.

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

justam . sufficient or well-grounded.

illud , this (referring forward to the inf. clause following), i.e. the point previously treated;

hoc , the new point now introduced.

odio . . . parenti : § 382 ,1(233, a); B. 191,2; G. 356; H. 433 (390, i); H.-B. 360 and b.

eodem , to the same point (as that treated in the preceding section).

displiceret , was disliked by .

qui odisset , in that he hated (according to their argument): see § 592 , 3 (341, d); B.323; G. 628; H. 649, i (528,1); H.-B. 535, 1, a.

constantissimus (opposed to

amens ), most steady-minded ("level-headed").

illud refers forward (as usual) to

causam fuisse .

jam , by this time.

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