M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 72

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[72] etenim quid tam est¹ commune quam spiritus vivis, terra mortuis, mare fluctuantibus, litus eiectis? ita vivunt, dum possunt, ut ducere animam² de caelo non queant, ita moriuntur ut eorum ossa terra non tangat³, ita iactantur fluctibus ut numquam adluantur⁴, ita postremo eiciuntur ut ne ad saxa quidem mortui conquiescant. tanti malefici crimen, cui maleficio tam insigne supplicium est constitutum, probare te, Eruci, censes posse talibus viris, si ne causam quidem malefici protuleris? si hunc apud bonorum emptores ipsos accusares eique iudicio Chrysogonus praeesset, tamen diligentius paratiusque venisses.

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.) — 72 focus

[72] Indeed what is so common as breath to the living, earth to the dead, the sea to those who float, the shore to those who are cast up by the sea? These men so live, while they are able to live at all, that they are unable to draw breath from heaven; they so die that earth does not touch their bones; they are tossed about by the waves so that they are never washed; lastly, they are cast up by the sea so, that when dead they do not even rest on the rocks. Do you think, O Erucius, that you can prove to such men as these your charge of so enormous a crime, a crime to which so remarkable a punishment is affixed, if you do not allege any motive for the crime? If you were accusing him before the very purchasers of his property, and if Chrysogonus were presiding at that trial, still you would have come more carefully and with more preparation.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. tam est est tam χ, Lambinus (quid enim tam commune cit. Cicero Orat. 107; Quintil. xii. 6. 4)

2. animam σχψ, Cic. l. c.: animum cett.

3. terram non tangant Cic. l. c.

4. adluantur Cic. l. c., Sylvius: abluantur codd.

M. Tullius Cicero Pro S. Roscio Amerino 72

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