M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 69

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[69] qua re hoc quo minus est credibile, nisi ostenditur, eo magis est, si convincitur, vindicandum.

25 itaque cum multis ex rebus intellegi potest maiores nostros non modo armis plus quam ceteras nationes verum etiam consilio sapientiaque potuisse, tum ex hac re vel maxime quod in impios singulare supplicium invenerunt. qua in re quantum prudentia praestiterint¹ eis qui apud ceteros sapientissimi fuisse dicuntur considerate.

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.) — 69 focus

[69] On which account, the less credible it is unless it be proved, the more terribly is it to be punished if it be proved. 25 Therefore, it may be understood by many circumstances that our ancestors surpassed other nations not only in arms, but also in wisdom and prudence; and also most especially by this, that they devise a singular punishment for the impious. And in this matter consider how far they surpassed in prudence those who are said to have been the wisest of all nations.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. praestiterint (-it ς) σχψ: praestiterunt cett.

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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

sint , exist.

exstent : Cf. note on

ostendatur , above.

expressa vestigia , distinct footprints.

ratione , manner, i.e. the whole plan of the act.

suspicionibus : governed by

reclamitat , which, on account of its meaning, takes an indir. obj.

esse , that there should be, etc.

feras : notice the emphatic position. The emphasis may be expressed in English either by changing the verb to the passive (in order to keep

feras at the beginning of the clause) or by turning thus: even in the case of wild beasts, etc.

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