Pro S. Roscio Amerino

CH. XLIV.] NOTBS. 119
XLIV., §§ 127-129. Argument.—/C is about Chrysogmus, not
about Sulla, that I am making these statemenls. Since the proscriptions
and sales were to end on June Ist, and the murder took place
some months after ihat date, either the property was never entered in
the public accounts, or the public accounts were tampered with ; for
the sale could not have been a legal one.
Ch. XLIV.— 1. in quem : " about whom." in eum : " about him.
Cicero, though throughout this part of his speech there is an undercurrent
of feeling against the arbitrary measures of SuUa, takes
care to avoid a direct attack upon the all-powerful dictator.
4. ut : "namely, that." The clauses introduced by ut are all
substantive clauses explanatory of haec omnia. ementiretur ; used
absolutely, "he told lies."
7. passus non sit : ementiretur, fingeret, diceret are in the imperfect
because they express the reiterated assertions of Chrysogonus
; the perfeet is here used because it denotes the single act
which was the culmination and result of the repeated deelarations.
10. quam ad diem: "an appointed day up to which"; dies is
generally feminine in the singular when it means " a set dny " or
" appointed t.ime " In the plunil it is always niasculine.
^ 11. Kalendas lunias: 81 b.c. See Introd., §2. aliquot post
/menses : we might have expected the ablative of measure or
idegree of difference, aliquot mensihus postea ; the aecusative seems
|,to be due to attraction to post. The same phenomenon occurs in
jthe common ante diem quintum, etc, in dates.
13. profecto: "inany case." haecbona: i.e. themoney accruing
from the sale of the property. nulla : adverbial, "not at all,"
equivalent to an emphatic non. redierunt : literally '
' have come
in" as revenue or income ; i.e. " have been registered" in the State
accounts.
15. corruptae . . . sunt : through the entry being made under a
false date (i.e. one before June Ist).
17. ante tempus : sinee the caput or personality (under the
charge of parricidium, the life) of Sex. Rosoius was still in danger.
1 19. reduviam curem : "attend to a hang-nail" on the finger ;
I rediLviam curare was a pi-overbial expression for " to be busy about
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trifles."
22. liberatus sit " : sub-dependent " subjunctive, in dependence
on an accusative and infinitive phrase.
23. pro me ipso : = meo nomine, " on my own account."
27. sensu ac dolore : hendiadys, "feelings of indignation."
28. qua condicione : == qua fortima ; he will be content with a
bare acquittal on the charge of parricide.
29. extrema oratione : = extrema parte orationis. Adjectives
like su7nmus, medius, and extremus, instead of qualifying as a whole
the substantives of which they are the attributes,
certain parts of those substantives.
often specify
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