M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 89

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[89] 32 haec tu, Eruci, tot et tanta si nanctus¹ esses in reo, quam diu diceres! quo te modo iactares! tempus hercule te citius quam oratio deficeret. etenim in singulis rebus eius modi materies est ut dies singulos possis² consumere. neque ego non possum; non enim tantum mihi derogo, tametsi nihil adrogo, ut te copiosius quam me putem posse dicere. verum ego forsitan propter multitudinem patronorum³ in grege⁴ adnumerer, te pugna Cannensis accusatorem⁵ sat bonum fecit. multos caesos non ad Trasumennum⁶ lacum, sed ad Servilium vidimus.

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.) — 89 focus

[89] If you, O Erucius, had so many and such strong arguments against a criminal, how long you would speak; how you would plume yourself,—time indeed would fail you before words did. In truth, on each of these topics the materials are such that you might spend a whole day on each. And I could do the same; for I will not derogate so much from my own claims, though I arrogate nothing, as to believe that you can speak with more fluency than I can. But I, perhaps, owing to the number of advocates, may be classed in the common body; the battle of Cannae ¹ has made you a sufficiently respectable accuser. We have seen many men slain, not at Thrasymenus, but at Servilius. ²

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. nanctus σπ, Halm: nactus cett.

2. posses Wesenberg

3. patronorum paternorum ς αφω

4. grege ψ: gregem cett.

5. accusatorum Buttmann

6. Trasumennum Fleckeisen: Trahasymennum ς: Trasimennum π: Trasimenum A σψ

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

ipse percussit , did he strike the fatal blow himself?

ipsum , sc. percussisse.

per alios : for abl. of means, when persons are intended, see § 405 , b (246, b) ; G. 401; H.468, 3 (415,1, N.1); H.-B. 380, d.

indidemne Ameria , from Ameria there ? (lit. the someplace).

hosce sicarios , these cut-throats here of ours.

convenit , i.e. to bargain for the murder.

unde , i.e. on whom did he draw for the money ? All such banking business being in a manner public, the sum could be traced, as by cheques and the like in modern times.

caput , fountain-head .

tibi , dat. instead of poss. gen.: § 377 (235, a); B. 181, I, N.; G. 350, I; H. 425, 4, N. (384, 4, N.2); H.-B. 368.

veniat , with

facito ( fac) for simple imperat.: § 449 , c (269, g) ; cf. G. 553, I ; cf. H. 561, 2 (489, 2). The fut. form of the imperat. is used, because the accuser is bidden to reflect on the point raised, so that there is a distinct reference to future time: § 449 (269, d); B. 281, 1, a; G. 268, 2; H. 560, 4 (487, 2); H.-B. 496.

agrestem , boorish (see next clause).

in oppido constitisse , stayed in any town; oppidum is distinguished both from urbs, the great city, and vicus, a country village; it would be a place of some society and cultivation.

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