M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 52

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[52] odium igitur acerrimum patris in filium ex hoc, opinor, ostenditur, Eruci, quod hunc ruri esse patiebatur. numquid est aliud? immo vero inquit est; nam istum exheredare in animo habebat. audio; nunc dicis aliquid quod ad rem pertineat; nam illa, opinor, tu quoque concedis levia esse atque inepta: convivia cum patre non inibat. quippe, qui ne in oppidum quidem nisi perraro veniret¹. domum suam istum non fere quisquam vocabat. nec mirum, qui neque in urbe viveret neque revocaturus esset.

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.) — 52 focus

[52] The bitter dislike of the father to the son, then, is proved by this, O Erucius, that he allowed him to remain in the country. Is there anything else? Certainly, says he, there is. For he was thinking of disinheriting him. I hear you. Now you are saying something which may have a bearing on the business, for you will grant, I think, that those other arguments are trifling and childish. He never went to any feasts with his father. Of course not, as he very seldom came to town at all. People very seldom asked him to their houses. No wonder, for a man who did not live in the city, and was not likely to ask them in return.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. perraro errario ς: raro σχψ2

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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

quae domi , i.e. the personal protection of Roscius, supply of money, providing of witnesses, etc.

fori . . . rationem , the business of forum and court, i.e. the preliminaries of the trial.

ut videtis , i.e. he is here in court.

aetas , youth.

adsiduitate , constant presence, probably at the preliminary proceedings.

sectorum , a pun: the word means both buyers (of confiscated property) and cut-throats.

hac nobilitate , i.e. such nobles as he.

haec res , the present state of things.

ei , such.

qui . . . facerent : in this Clause (as often in Latin) purpose and result approach so Close]y as to be indistinguishable.

loco , rank in life.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 52

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