Pro S. Roscio Amerino

106 CtCERO : t>iRO tlOSClO. [CH. XXXII.
33. possum: "I would be able," indicative possum is used for
potential possim (cp. 19, 6) . quem ad modum ante dixi : in 30, 10.
XXXIII., §§ 92-94. Abgument.— You, Titus Roscius, had every
means and opportunity, which my client had not, of committing the
crime ; for you were at Rome and in the society of assassins while he
was in the country, and you were one of those luho coveted other
peopWs property,
Ch. XXXIII. —2. impellerent: " woiild haveurged," "might have
urged," potential subjunctive. Cicero seeks to point out the probability
of T. Roscius' guilt, not to assume the fact of his guilt, as he
would do if he had used quae istum impulerint (or impiderunt),
" which (actually) urged him on."
5. quid ad rem : sc. hoc pertinet ? quasi . . . agatur : see note on
16, 14.
7. eum . . . esse occisum : accusative and infinitive in dependence
on utmm . . . sit.
11. commemoravit : in 29, 15-16.
13. eorum : genitive of definition, or that of which a thing consists,
depending on multitudo. in bonis : sc. emendis, referring to
the sectores.
15. eos : sc. esse, as imperfect. alienum : here used substantivally,
" other people's property."
17. qui leviore nomine appellant " : who use a railder expression."
18. quaere . . . reperies : see note on 30, 8. aliquem " : a certain
one," a plain allusion to Chrysogonus.
21. quid postea " : wliat follows ?
22. ego : Cicero represents his client as himself answering
Magnus.
24. non continuo . . . sum sicarius : "I am not forthwith an
assassin," i.e. " it does not follow that I am an assassin."
28. quare : i.e. qua re. It does not of course refer to tlie plural
antecedent (permidta), but to the action implied by qitae dici
possunt, "by means of which fact," " whereby." It is construed
with the consecutive subjunctive intelligatur, " it can be understood."
30. eo : a neuter form in the instrumental ablative, denoting
the degree of differenee, and used as an adverb ; it here refers to
quod (line 30), "because."
33. vereor ne . . . videatur : this is substituted for the regular
apodosis of velim, present snbjunctive in vague future condition ;
i.e. vereor ne videatur is a still vaguer form of videatur. plures : to
" more " than Roscius, viz. to all those who had taken part in the
proscriptions.
XXXIV., §§ 95-97. Akgument.—Le< us now examine what Titus
Bosciua did after the murder. The message o/ Mallius Olaucia, and
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