M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 27

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[27] 10 quod hic simul atque sensit, de amicorum cognatorumque sententia Romam confugit et sese ad Caeciliam, Nepotis sororem, Baliarici filiam¹, quam honoris causa nomino, contulit, qua² pater usus erat plurimum; in qua muliere, iudices, etiam³ nunc, id quod omnes semper existimaverunt, quasi exempli causa vestigia antiqui offici remanent. ea Sex. Roscium inopem, eiectum domo atque expulsum ex suis bonis, fugientem latronum tela et minas recepit domum hospitique oppresso iam desperatoque ab omnibus opitulata est. eius virtute, fide, diligentia factum est ut hic potius vivus in reos quam occisus in proscriptos referretur.

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.) — 27 focus

[27] As soon as he perceived this, by the advice of his friends and relations he fled to Rome , and betook himself to Caecilia, the daughter of Nepos, (whom I name to do her honour,) with whom his father had been exceedingly intimate; a woman in whom, O judges, even now, as all men are of opinion, as if it were to serve as a model, traces of the old-fashioned virtue remain. She received into her house Sextus Roscius, helpless, turned and driven out of his home and property, flying from the weapons and threats of robbers, and she assisted her guest now that he was overwhelmed and now that his safety was despaired of by every one. By her virtue and good faith and diligence it has been caused that he now is rather classed as a living man among the accused, than as a dead man among the proscribed.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. Nepotis sororem, Baliarici filiam Garatoni: Nepotis filiam codd.: del. Passeratius

2. qua χ1ψ2ω: quam cett.

3. etiamnum ς

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

quadriduo , etc.: we should say within four days from the time when.

in castra : the idea of motion, vividly conceived, suggests the acc. of place as well as person ; we should say " to Chrysogonus in Sulla's camp at V."; § 428 , j (259, h) ; B. 182, 2, b; G. 337, R.6; H.-B. 450, c.

Volaterras . "Here some of the Etruscans and of those proscribed by Sulla made a stand and were blockaded for two years, and then surrendered on terms."

defertur : this word implies an intentional conveying of the information, as if in the manner of a formal report.

fundos , different estates i.e. lands or buildings, whether in town or country.

tris = tres: the acc. termination in - is remained in this and a few other words for a considerable time after the form in - es became the more common.

Tiberim : the nearness of the river facilitated both irrigation and transportation, and so added much to the value of the estates.

splendidus , eminent: the regular complimentary epithet of equites and persons of similar rank ;

gratiosus , in favor: referring to his relations with great families, which Cicero takes care never to let the jury forget.

nullo negotio , without any difficulty.

ne teneam , not to detain you: a purpose clause after some verb of saying, etc., which is regularly omitted, as in English ; § 532 (317, e); B. 282, 4; G. 688; H.568, 4 (499, 2, N.) ; H.-B. 502, 2, c.

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