M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 66

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[66] 24 videtisne quos¹ nobis poetae tradiderunt patris ulciscendi causa supplicium de matre sumpsisse, cum praesertim deorum immortalium iussis atque oraculis id fecisse dicantur, tamen ut eos agitent Furiae neque consistere umquam² patiantur, quod ne pii quidem sine scelere esse potuerunt? sic se res habet, iudices: magnam vim, magnam necessitatem, magnam possidet religionem paternus maternusque sanguis; ex quo si qua macula concepta est, non modo elui³ non potest verum usque eo permanat ad animum ut summus furor atque amentia consequatur.

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.) — 66 focus

[66] Do you not see in the case of those whom the poets have handed down to us, as having, for the sake of avenging their father, inflicted punishment on their mother, especially when they were said to have done so at the command and in obedience to the oracles of the immortal gods, how the furies nevertheless haunt them, and never suffer them to rest, because they could not be pious without wickedness. And this is the truth, O judges. The blood of one's father and mother has great power, great obligation, is a most holy thing, and if any stain of that falls on one, it not only cannot be washed out, but it drips down into the very soul, so that extreme frenzy and madness follow it.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. quos quod χ2ψ2

2. usquam A

3. elui Victorius: leui ς απφ: leni χψ: lui ω: om. ς in lac.

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 , referring to

id in 1.5: cf. in English, " whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you."

jam prope cotidiana , which have now came to be an almost everyday affair.

quae , etc.: the question which is referred to in

quod . . .

quaeritur .

convenisse . . . videntur , seem to have converged upon one spot and to agree together: the phrase

inter se may express any sort of reciprocal relation; § 301 , f (196, f); B. 245, 1; G. 221 ; H. 502, 1 (448, N.); H.-B. 266.

ingenio , talent (i.e. power in putting the case).

cum , not only.

ostendatur : § 569 , 2, N.2 (331, f R.); B. 295, 6 and 8; G. 535, R.2; H. 564, ii, I (502, 1); H.-B. 502, 3, c.

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