M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 36

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[36] non eodem modo de omnibus, ideo quod prima illa res ad meum officium pertinet, duas autem reliquas vobis populus Romanus imposuit; ego crimen oportet diluam, vos et audaciae resistere et hominum eius modi perniciosam atque intolerandam potentiam primo quoque tempore exstinguere atque opprimere debetis.

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.) — 36 focus

[36] What then am I to say? I must not speak in the same manner on them all; because the first topic indeed belongs to my duty, but the two others the Roman people have imposed on you. I must efface the accusations; you ought both to resist the audacity, and at the earliest possible opportunity to extinguish and put down the pernicious and intolerable influence of men of that sort.

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

aureum : the Greek name Chrysogonus means gold-born.

latuit : because his was the only name that appeared.

alii quoque , i.e. other purchasers of confiscated estates.

ut mihi , etc., i.e. I have no occasion to say anything of the purchasers of confiscated estates in general, for this case, by its atrocity, is taken out of the common category (

haec enim causa , etc., 1.24, below).

sectorum : these were the purchasers of confiscated property in the lump, who afterwards divided it ( seco) to sell again in detail.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 36

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