M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 71

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[71] 26 O singularem sapientiam, iudices! nonne videntur hunc hominem ex rerum natura sustulisse et eripuisse cui repente caelum, solem, aquam terramque ademerint ut, qui eum necasset unde ipse natus esset¹, careret eis rebus omnibus ex quibus omnia nata esse dicuntur? noluerunt feris corpus obicere ne bestiis quoque quae tantum scelus attigissent immanioribus uteremur; non sic nudos in flumen deicere ne, cum delati essent in mare, ipsum² polluerent quo cetera quae violata sunt expiari putantur; denique nihil tam vile neque tam volgare est cuius partem ullam reliquerint.

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.) — 71 focus

[71] O singular wisdom, O judges! Do they not seem to have cut this man off and separated him from nature; from whom they took away at once the heaven, the sun, water and earth, so that he who had slain him, from whom he himself was horn, might be deprived of all those things from which everything is said to derive its birth. They would not throw his body to wild beasts, lest we should find the very beasts who had touched such wickedness, more savage; they would not throw them naked into the river, lest when they were carried down into the sea, they should pollute that also, by which all other things which have been polluted are believed to be purified. There is nothing in short so vile or so common that they left them any share in it.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. esset Angelius: est (esset σχψ) et codd.

2. mare, mare ipsum Richter

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

ita , so very.

non obscurum , respectable .

servus : here used as adj.; § 321 , c (188, d); G. 288, R.; H.495, 3 (441, 3); H.-B. 240, 2, b.

pertineret , subj. of characteristic.

id aetatis , i.e. too old for the sound sleep of childhood; § 397 , a (240, b); B. 185, 2 ; G. 336, N.2; H.416, 2 (378, 2); H.-B. 388, b.

autem , on the other hand ,

propter , near by.

neutrumne sensisse , the idea that etc.: infin. of exclam., § 462 (274); B. 334; G. 534; H. 616, 3 (539, iii); H.-B. 596. Cf. Aeneid 1.37 .

potissimum , of all others: cf. sect. 1 , l. 3.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 71

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