M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 79

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[79] 29 nunc, Eruci, ad te venio. conveniat mihi tecum necesse est, si ad hunc maleficium istud pertinet, aut ipsum sua manu fecisse, id quod negas, aut per aliquos liberos aut servos. liberosne? quos neque ut convenire¹ potuerit neque qua ratione inducere neque ubi neque per quos neque qua spe aut quo pretio potes ostendere. ego contra ostendo non modo nihil eorum fecisse Sex. Roscium sed ne potuisse quidem facere, quod neque Romae multis annis fuerit neque de praediis umquam temere discesserit. restare tibi videbatur servorum nomen, quo quasi in portum reiectus a ceteris suspicionibus confugere posses; ubi scopulum offendis eius modi ut non modo ab hoc crimen² resilire videas verum omnem suspicionem in vosmet ipsos recidere intellegas.

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.) — 79 focus

[79] Now, Erucius, I come to you. You must inevitably agree with me, if he is really implicated in this crime, that he either committed it with his own hand, which you deny, or by means of some other men, either freemen or slaves. Were they freemen? You can neither show that he had any opportunity of meeting them, nor by what means he could persuade them, nor where he saw them, nor by what agency he trafficked with them, nor by what hope, or what bribe he persuaded them. I show, on the other hand, not only that Sextus Roscius did nothing of all this, but that he was not even able to do anything, because he had neither been at Rome for many years, nor did he ever leave his farm without some object. The name of slaves appeared to remain to you, to which, when driven from your other suspicions, you might fly as to a harbour, when you strike upon such a rock that you not only see the accusation rebound back from it, but perceive that every suspicion falls upon you yourselves.

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. convenire ed. Guar.: conveniret (-em ω) codd.

2. crimine σφω

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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

obicere , cast forth to .

ne bestiis . . . uteremur , lest we should find the very beasts more savage (

immanioribus , in predicate apposition).

attigissent , subj. of integral part.

sic nudos , naked as they were.

ipsum , even that.

violata , defiled.

expiari : sea water, as well as running water, was regarded as having a ceremonially purifying quality, an opinion prevailing in various religions, and found in the forms of ablution, baptism, and the like.

putantur : for mood cf.

dicuntur , 1.27, above.

tam . . . volgare , so cheap or so common.

cujus . . . reliquerint , clause of result.

etenim , i.e. it needs no argument to show, etc.

ejectis , to castaways .

ita , in such a way.

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