Pro S. Roscio Amerino

P-RO SEX. EOSCIO, §§ 15—20. 7
old and famous gladiator of many victories, •wliile tliis
one here has lately betaken himself to the other as his
trainer, and though, so far as I know, he was a tiro
before this conflict, he readily sui'passed even his master in
crime a,nd reckless daring.
18. For when my client Sextus Eoscius was in Ameria,
while Titus Eoscius, the prosecutor, was at Eome ; when
my client the son and'heir was busy on his estates, and
when in accordance with his father's wishes he had devoted
himself to the management of the property and the life of
a country gentlemen, wlijle the prosecutor was constantly
at Eome, near the Palla,cinian baths, as he was retvirning
from a dinner-party, Sextus Eoscius was murdered. I
trust from this bare statement of the facts it is plain to
whom the suspicion of the crime attaches itself ;
but if the
real facts of the case do not make a matter of certainty
what is up to this point a matter of suspicion, then you
may set my client down as being implicated in the crime.
19. After the murder of Sextus Eoscius the news was
first brought to Ameria by a certain Mallius Grlaucia,
a poor freedman who was a client of and on terms of
intimacy with Titus Eoscius, and he brought the news not
to the house of the son but to that of the murdered man's
enemy Titus Capito Though the murder took place an
hour after nightfall, this messenger arrived at Ameria
with the first streak of dawn. In the ten hours of the
night he sped post-haste a distance of fifty-six miles, not
merely to be the first to bear the wished-for tidings to
that enemy, but to show him the blood of his enemy as
fresh as possible and the weapon but a little while before
drawn from his body.
20. Within four days after these proceedings, the matter
was reported to Chrysogonus in the camp of Lucius Sulla
at Volaterrae ; the great extent of the property was pointed
out to him ; the productiveness of the estates—he left
thirteen farms which nearly all border on the Tiber— and
my clienfs poverty and isolation was narrated to him.
They pointed out that after a distinguished and influential
man like Sextus Eoscius, my clienfs father, had been put
io death without any trouble, my client, who was unsuspi.