Pro Sexto Roscio Amerino oratio Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: qui arma capere potuerunt] potuerunt is emphatic, the fathers could at least fight against wrong, the innocent victims of political cruelty, eorum liberi, cannot... more ». 11. senatus suscipere noluit] it need not be inferred from this that Sulla invited the Senate to authorise his proscriptions, see Introd., note on p. xii., and cf. Plutarch, Sulla 31 ô S' ovv StfXXas fueus oySoYiKovra ??po¿ypaiftev oóSevi Twv ¿v r¿ei Kotvwffafj.evos. ' Sulla at once proscribed eighty citizens without imparting his intention to any of the magistrates.' 12. quam more maiorum comparatum est] cf. 102,1. 31. publico consilio] see note on 151, 1. 24. 14. infantium puerorum] piieri is used of children of both sexes ; for the phrase cf. de Orat. 2. 39, 162 atque omnia minima mansa ut nutrices infantibus pueris in os inserant. 16. hoc iudicio] 'in the present trial,' for the various meanings of iudicium cf. 11, 1. 3 ad indicium convenire, 1. 5 ut acria ac severa indicia fiant, 1. 6 iudicium committitur. 16. quem in locum] locus of condition, state, most common in the ablative with prep, in or frequently without it, cf. ?or. ??. 1. 12, 25 quo sit Romana loco res. 17. putetis I cf. de Imp. Pomp. 4,11 videte quem vobis animum suscipiendum putetis. The putetis is not pleonastic. Halm holds that it gives to the dependent verb the force of the Greek optative with av. Thus in the present passage Cicero might have written quem in locum res publica perventura sit, but the addition of putetis suggests the sense ' consider to what a pass our country will (in your opinion) be brought.' 154 19. ex quibus rebus...laborat] see note on laborare 149,1. 30. 22. íu hostes lenissimus] for in cf. note on 127, 1. 5. The Bomans were given to claiming credit for dementia, fides and other virtues as peculiarly Bo...« less