M. Tullius Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 92

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[92] 33 video igitur causas esse permultas quae istum impellerent; videamus nunc ecquae¹ facultas suscipiendi malefici fuerit. Vbi occisus est Sex. Roscius? — Romae. — quid? tu, T. T iti Rosci², ubi tunc eras? — Romae. verum quid ad rem? et alii multi. — quasi nunc³ id agatur quis ex tanta multitudine occiderit, ac non hoc quaeratur, eum qui Romae sit occisus utrum veri similius sit ab eo esse occisum qui adsiduus eo tempore Romae fuerit, an ab eo qui multis annis Romam omnino non accesserit.

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.) — 92 focus

[92] I see therefore that there were many causes which urged that man to this crime. Let us now see whether he had any opportunity of committing it. Where was Sextus Roscius slain?—at Rome . What of you, O Roscius? Where were you at that time?—at Rome . But what is that to the purpose? many other men were there too. As if the point now were, who of so vast a crowd slew him, and as if this were not rather the question, whether it is more probable that he who was slain at Rome was slain by that man who was constantly at Rome at that time, or by him who for many years had never come to Rome at all?

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Pro S. Roscio Amerino

1. ecquae Naugerius: et quae codd.

2. tu T. w: ut ς: tu cett.

3. nunc non σψ2

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

qua in re , on this point .

praetereo , etc.: an excellent example of the rhetorical device called praeteritio ("omission"). The speaker dwells upon the point while pretending to pass it over in silence.

poterat , might, i.e. if I chose to use it: § 522 , a (31 1, c) ; B. 304,3; G. 597, R.3; H.583 (511,1, N.3); H.-B. 382, 3,a.

victu arido , dry or meagre way of living.

inculta , uncouth.

possis , potential subj., § 446 (

in urbe (emphatic), i.e. not in the country, where Roscius was.

exsistat, erumpat , dependent on

necesse est .

erumpat , burst forth: a strong word is used on account of

audacia , reckless during .

autem , on the other hand .

agrestem : see note on l. 3

parsimoniae , thrift (in a good sense).

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