M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 51

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[51] neque ego haec eo profero quo conferenda sint cum hisce de quibus nunc quaerimus, sed ut illud intellegatur¹, cum apud maiores nostros summi viri clarissimique homines qui omni tempore ad gubernacula rei publicae sedere debebant tamen in agris quoque colendis aliquantum operae temporisque consumpserint², ignosci oportere ei homini qui se fateatur esse rusticum, cum ruri³ adsiduus semper vixerit, cum praesertim nihil esset quod aut patri gratius aut sibi iucundius aut re vera honestius facere posset.

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.) — 51 focus

[51] Nor do I bring forward these instances in order to compare them with these matters which we are now investigating; but in order that that may be understood: that, as in the times of our ancestors, the highest and most illustrious men, who ought at all times to have been sitting at the helm of the republic, yet devoted much of their attention and time to the cultivation of their lands; that man ought to be pardoned, who avows himself a rustic, for having lived constantly in the country, especially when be could do nothing which was either more pleasing to his father, or more delightful to himself, or in reality more honourable.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. intellegatur intellegant A: intellegas σχ2

2. consumpserint Beroaldus: consumpserunt codd.

3. cum ruri qui ruri Vrsinus assiduos ς α: assiduo Gulielmius

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

pro patris , etc., in accordance with his father's friendly relations and personal influence (see above, sect. 1 ), i.e. by an advocacy proportionate in number and influence to the number and attachment of his father's friends.

sin . . . vindicarent , i.e. if all the citizens were disposed to right his wrongs.

pro eo , etc., in view of the fact that (i.e. with a due regard to the way in which) the highest interests of the State (

summa res publica ) are assailed .

haec , these outrages. Observe that English often requires descriptive words which the Latin can omit as being implied in the context.

consistere , etc., hinting that the accusers would be in danger of violence.

nunc , as it is ("as things stand": opposed to the preceding suppositions).

sane , I'm sure.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 51

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