Pro S. Roscio Amerino
Pro S. Roscio Amerino
Pro S. Roscio Amerino
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116 CICERO : PRO<br />
EOSCIO. [CH. XLl.<br />
10. dicerent . . . esset . . . putaret : these verbs depend on<br />
vixerunt, the words talesque a populo Romano putant^ir being to a<br />
certain extent parenthetical, and denoting the result arrived at by<br />
the blanieless mode of life of the homines nohilissimi. esset : the<br />
subjunctive is hypothetical (in the apodosis of a conditional sentence)<br />
as well as consecutive ("there would be no one . . . "),<br />
quidquid dicerent being protasis {quidquid = si quid). When the<br />
apodosis of a conditional sentence referring to present or past time<br />
is also consecutive, a periphrasis by means of the future participle<br />
with fuerim is usually resorted to, instead of the imperfect or<br />
pluperfect active ; so that here we might have expected futurus<br />
fuerit for esset. An hypothetical imperfect is, however, sometimes<br />
found (as here),—a pluperfect very rarely.<br />
12. cuperet: potential subjunctive. dum : = dummodo, "provided<br />
that."<br />
]6. reeusaris : the object rem can easily be supplied. cuni<br />
occiditur Sex. Roscius : "at the time when Sex. Roscius was<br />
killed " ; the present is here employed with cum af ter a past<br />
tense almost in the sense of dum ("whilst"), a rare usage. (Dum<br />
meaning "during the time that" is regularly used with the<br />
present indicative.)<br />
18. quod : = " tlie fact that," introducing a noun clause, subject<br />
of suspiciosum est. oppugnari : = obsisti, hence foUowed by ne.<br />
21. aliquid " : something iniportant."<br />
22. in dominos : see note on 28, 16.<br />
24. de hoc " : about him," i.e. Sextus Roscius.<br />
25. credo : ironical.<br />
27. deliciarum . .<br />
"pet slaves."<br />
. artium : genitives of quality. pueruloa<br />
29. operarios : with special reference to field-work, "farmlabourers."<br />
ex : " fresh from."<br />
30. non est veri simile ut : veri siinile is constructed with ut only<br />
in negative or quasi-negative sentences.<br />
XLII., §§ 122, 123. Argument.—^s regards Chrysogonus, I do<br />
not suspect him of the murder, or of a desire to conceal it. But I do<br />
say that the excessive influence of Chrysogonus is intolerable, and<br />
should be wealcened.<br />
Ch. XLII.— 1. suine: "of his own" as opposed to that of the<br />
Roscii.<br />
2. non vult : = recusat. minime : referring to sui.<br />
3. non in omnes arbitror omnia convenire : i.e. circumstances<br />
alter cases ; in this instance the circumstances are such that we<br />
cannot regard Chrysogonus as implicated in the ictual murder.<br />
6. meministis . . . distribuisse : cf. Ch. 13. Memini is said to be<br />
tised with the present infinitive and sometimes (as here) with the<br />
perfect infinitive of events, which the subjeet himself witnessed,<br />
"with the perfect infinitive of events of which the Bubject was<br />
: