M. Tullius Cicero, Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo, ed. Albert Curtis Clark, 8

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[8] ego quae clara sunt consuetudine diutius dicere non debeo; illud vero quod ad rem vehementer pertinet, quaero: quam pridem hoc nomen, Fanni, in adversaria rettulisti? erubescit, quid respondeat nescit, quid fingat extemplo non habet. sunt duo menses iam, dices. tamen in codicem accepti et expensi referri debuit. amplius sunt sex menses. cur tam diu iacet hoc nomen in adversariis? quid si tandem amplius triennium est? quo modo, cum omnes qui tabulas conficiant menstruas paene rationes in tabulas transferant, tu hoc nomen triennium amplius in adversariis iacere pateris?

Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo. M. Tullius Cicero. ed. Albert Curtis Clark. Oxford. 1909.

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

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For Quintus Roscius the Actor Perseus (Cicero. The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 1. Yonge, Charles Duke, translator. London: Bell, 1903.) — 8 focus

[8] I need not say any more about matters in which the custom is so notorious; but I ask you this, which is very material to the question, How long ago is it, O Fannius, that you made this entry in your memoranda? He blushes; he does not know what to answer; he is at a loss for anything to invent off-hand. “It is two months ago,” you will say; yet it ought to have been copied into the account-book of money received and paid. “It is more than six months.” Why then is it left so long in the memorandum-book? What if it is more than three years ago? How is it that, when every one else who makes up account-books transfers his accounts every month almost into his books you allow this sum to remain among your memoranda more than three years?

M. Tullius Cicero Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 8

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