M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 26

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[26] Vsque adeo autem¹ ille pertimuerat ut mori mallet quam de his rebus Sullam doceri. homines antiqui, qui ex sua natura ceteros fingerent, cum ille confirmaret sese nomen sex. Rosci de tabulis exempturum, praedia vacua filio traditurum, cumque id ita futurum T. T itus Roscius Capito qui in decem legatis erat appromitteret, crediderunt; Ameriam re inorata² reverterunt. ac primo rem differre cotidie ac procrastinare isti coeperunt, deinde aliquanto lentius nihil³ agere atque deludere, postremo, id quod facile intellectum est, insidias vitae huiusce Sex. Rosci parare neque sese arbitrari posse diutius alienam pecuniam domino incolumi obtinere.

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.) — 26 focus

[26] But to such a degree was he alarmed, that he would rather have died than have let Sulla be informed of these things. These old-fashioned men, who judged of others by their own nature, when he pledged himself to have the name of Sextus Roscius removed from the lists of proscription, and to give up the farms unoccupied to his son, and when Titus Roscius Capito, who was one of the ten deputies, added his promise that it should be so, believed him; they returned to Ameria without presenting their petition. And at first those fellows began every day to put the matter off and to procrastinate; then they began to be more indifferent; to do nothing and to trifle with them; at last, as was easily perceived, they began to contrive plots against the life of this Sextus Roscius, and to think that they could no longer keep possession of another man's property while the owner was alive.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. autem enim coni. Müller

2. re inorata B πψ: re morata cett.

3. nihil del. Halm

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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

ita , so very.

non obscurum , respectable .

servus : here used as adj.; § 321 , c (188, d); G. 288, R.; H.495, 3 (441, 3); H.-B. 240, 2, b.

pertineret , subj. of characteristic.

id aetatis , i.e. too old for the sound sleep of childhood; § 397 , a (240, b); B. 185, 2 ; G. 336, N.2; H.416, 2 (378, 2); H.-B. 388, b.

autem , on the other hand ,

propter , near by.

neutrumne sensisse , the idea that etc.: infin. of exclam., § 462 (274); B. 334; G. 534; H. 616, 3 (539, iii); H.-B. 596. Cf. Aeneid 1.37 .

potissimum , of all others: cf. sect. 1 , l. 3.

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