M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo, 1

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[1] ... He, forsooth, excellent man, and of singular integrity, endeavours in his own cause to bring forward his account-books as witnesses. Men are accustomed to say.... ¹ Did I endeavour to corrupt such a man as that, so as to induce him to make a false entrance for my sake? I am waiting till Chaerea uses this argument. Was I able to induce this hand to be full of falsehood, and these fingers to make a false entry? But if he produces his accounts, Roscius will also produce his.

Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo. M. Tullius Cicero. London. 1903.

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For Quintus Roscius the Actor (English) (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 1. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1903.)

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Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo Perseus (Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes, Volume 4. Clark, Albert Curtis, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909.) — 1 focus

[1] 1 malitiam naturae crederetur. is scilicet vir optimus et singulari fide praeditus in suo iudicio suis tabulis testibus uti conatur. solent fere dicere qui per tabulas hominis honesti pecuniam expensam tulerunt: egone talem virum corrumpere potui, ut mea causa falsum in codicem referret? exspecto quam mox Chaerea hac oratione utatur: egone hanc manum plenam perfidiae et hos digitos meos impellere potui ut falsum perscriberent nomen? quod si ille suas proferet tabulas, proferet suas quoque Roscius. erit in illius tabulis hoc nomen, at in huius non erit.

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Quintus Roscius

1. There is a hiatus here so that though there are some words more in the Latin text, which I have omitted, it is impossible to make an sense of them.

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