Pro S. Roscio Amerino

Cfi. XXXI.] NOTES. 103
25. periculum : used regularly of the risk run by tlie defendant
in a causa publica, or criminal trial ; not employed in connection
with eivil cases. creabatur : = inferehaiur.
27. tadplicatus : a conjecture for the MS. reading implicatm or
implicitus. Most editors adopt the conjecture implacatus, which
seems less suitable even than the reading of the MSS. Inclinatus
is suggested by G. Ammon, but it does not seem close enough to the
MS. reading.
29. ab innocentia : = pro innocentihus. Ab often means " on the
side of," especially in the phrases ab aliquo stare, db aliquo dicere,
ab aliquo facere.
31. Cassianoa iudices : proverbial for "strict judges."
33. Sex. Roscio : great emphasis is laid on these words.
XXXI., §§ 86-88. Aegument.— Fow, Titus Boscius, had every
motive to impel you to such a crime ; yo\i have suddenly exchanged
wealth for extreme poverty. You are known to be avaricious,
audacious, and a bitter foe of my client. The jury must consider
the contrast in the positions of Titus and Sextus, and then decide
which ofthe two luas the more likely to commit the murder.
Ch. XXXI.— 1. cum viderent : either temporal or conditional, "on
quaererent (line 3) and adiungerent (line 4) are the verbs in
seeing " ;
the compound apodosis, being themselves potential subjunctives
referring to present time.
3. eo perspicuo : ablative
perspicuum sit, cui honofuerit.
of attendant circumstances, = cum
4. praedam . . . egestatem : abstract for concrete.
9. ergo : "well then." horum : = harum rerum, i.e.
avaritia, audacia, inimicitia.
tenuitas,
11. praefers : =praetefers.
12. coieris : subjunctive in relative causal clause. cum alienis:
simo : i.e. Chrysogonus. Cicero here " begs the question," by
assuming as true what can only be considered as proved when the
verdict is given.
13. alia : ohliviscor takes either an accusative or an objective
geiiitive of the tliing, and nearly always a genitive of the person.
obliviscar : = silentio praeteream.
15. sederes : subjunctive in a consecutive relative clause ; qui =
talis iLt.
16. os tuum : "your brazen face." ostenderes : "let it be seen."
" thrust it upon us."
19. hoc dubitemus : = hoc in utramque partem deliberemu^,
ofiFerres :
" weigh this point."
23. feratur : in the middle sense, "rushed."
24. quaestum : in the narrow sense of " base gains," such as those
'
' honest
acquired by money-Ienders or (as here) sectwes. fructum :
earnings," the result of labour on the soil."