M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 39

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[39] 14 patrem occidit Sex. Roscius. qui homo? adulescentulus corruptus et ab hominibus nequam inductus¹? annos natus maior² quadraginta. vetus videlicet sicarius, homo audax et saepe in caede versatus. at hoc ab accusatore ne dici quidem audistis. luxuries igitur hominem nimirum et aeris alieni magnitudo et indomitae animi cupiditates ad hoc scelus impulerunt. de luxuria³ purgavit Erucius, cum dixit hunc ne in convivio quidem ullo fere interfuisse. nihil autem umquam⁴ debuit. cupiditates porro quae possunt esse in eo qui, ut ipse accusator obiecit, ruri semper habitarit et in agro colendo vixerit? quae vita maxime disiuncta a⁵ cupiditate et cum officio coniuncta est⁶.

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.) — 39 focus

[39] Sextus Roscius has murdered his father. What sort of man is he? is he a young man, corrupted, and led on by worthless men? He is more than forty years old. Is he forsooth an old assassin, a bold man, and one well practised in murder? You have not heard this so much as mentioned by the accuser. To be sure; then, luxury, and the magnitude of his debts, and the ungovernable desires of his disposition, have urged the man to this wickedness? Erucius acquitted him of luxury, when he said that he was scarcely ever present at any banquet. But he never owed anything Further what evil desires could exist in that man who as his accuser himself objected to him has always lived in the country and spent his time in cultivating his land, a mode of life which is utterly removed from covetousness, and inseparably allied to virtue?

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. inductus iudicatus ψ2

2. natus maior natu maior Gulielmius: natus magis Naugerius ( contra Arusian. K. vii. 495)

3. luxoriae ς: luxurie w, Müller ( cf. §75)

4. umquam cuiquam Bake

5. a ed. Guar.: om. codd.

6. coniuncta est s: coniuncta σχ2ψ: om. ς απχ1

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

iter , right of way, such as was usually reserved in case of the sale of any estate on which was a family burial-place ; by the proscription this right was cut off.

bonorum emptio : the technical term denoting purchase at public sale.

furta refers to

clam ;

rapinae to

palam , above.

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