M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 44

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[44] an amandarat¹ hunc sic ut esset in agro ac tantum modo aleretur ad villam, ut commodis omnibus careret? quid? si constat hunc non modo colendis praediis praefuisse sed certis fundis patre vivo frui solitum esse, tamenne haec a te vita eius² rusticana relegatio atque amandatio appellabitur? vides, Eruci, quantum distet argumentatio tua ab re ipsa atque a³ veritate. quod consuetudine patres faciunt, id quasi novum reprehendis; quod benivolentia fit, id odio factum⁴ criminaris; quod honoris causa pater filio suo concessit, id eum supplici causa fecisse dicis.

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.) — 44 focus

[44] Did he send him off to those farms that he might remain on the land and merely have life kept in him at this country seat? that he might be deprived of all conveniences? What? if it is proved that he not only managed the cultivation of the farms, but was accustomed himself to have certain of the farms for his own, even during the lifetime of his father? Will his industrious and rural life still be called removal and banishment? You see, O Erucius, how far removed your line of argument is from the fact itself, and from truth. That which fathers usually do, you find fault with as an unprecedented thing; that which is done out of kindness, that you accuse as having been done from dislike; that which a father granted his son as an honour, that you say he did with the object of punishing him.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. amandarat ς βπχ2ψ1: mandarat (emend. ψ2 cett.

2. a te vita eius Vahlen: a te vita et ψ2: attente vita et cett.: attenta vita et Naugerius

3. a ψ: om. cett.

4. factum || || ς: fort. factum tu

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

quod animadversum est (impers.)

in eos , that those have been punished (a euphemistic expression for the proscription). Observe the chiastic order of ideas ; (a) the punishment ; (b) the persons on whom it was inflicted; (b1) the persons rewarded; (a1) the reward.

quae , referring to both the punishment and the reward just spoken of.

in eo studio partium , in favor of that party:

studium is the regular word for siding with a particular party.

id actum est , this was the object .

idcirco , antecedent to the purpose clause.

ut . . . facerent , purpose clause in appos. with id.

postremi , the lowest (in class or character).

tum vero : here the apodosis begins.

nihil horum est, none of these things is true (i.e. is the fact).

ornabitur . Nothing can exceed the skill with which, throughout this oration, Cicero keeps before the minds of the jury the distinction between the great cause of Sulla and the nobility and the unscrupulous greed of some of Sulla's partisans. His continual allusions to his client's hereditary friendships with the aristocracy have this end, among others, in view.

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