M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 55

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[55] nemo nostrum est, Eruci, quin sciat tibi inimicitias cum Sex. Roscio nullas esse; vident omnes qua de causa huic¹ inimicus venias; sciunt huiusce pecunia te adductum esse quid ergo est? ita tamen quaestus te cupidum esse oportebat ut horum existimationem et legem Remmiam² putares aliquid valere oportere.

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.) — 55 focus

[55] There is not one of us, O Erucius, who does not know that you have no enmity against Sextus Roscius. All men see on what account you come here as his adversary. They know that you are induced to do so by this man's money. What then? Still you ought to have been desirous of gain with such limitations as to think that the opinion of all these men, and the Remmian ¹ law ought to nave some weight.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. huic Beroaldus: huc codd.

2. Remmiam rem miram A: Eruci iam ψ mg.

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

an vero , or can it be true that, etc. In this use of an, the first question is omitted, and the second is often a reductio ad absurdum, as here. The full thought is, " Do you not agree with me, or can it really (

vero ) be?" etc. See § 335 , b (211, b) ; B. 162, 4, a; G. 457, I ; H. 380, 3 (353, N.4) ; H.-B. 236.

agi , is their object (

aliquid

agere is to aim at something).

ut . . . tollantur , that . . . be got rid of in one way or another.

in vestro jurejurando , i.e. in the severity which your oath might seem to bind you to exercise.

periculo , the case (often used with reference to defendants).

ad quem . . . pertineat , i.e. on whom the suspicion rests.

sectorem . . . accusatorem , i.e. T. Roscius Magnus, at once purchaser, enemy, cut-throat, and accuser.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 55

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