Pro S. Roscio Amerino

48 CICBRO
should liave found it impossible to take notice of some
things ? TJnless it be a cause for astonishment if the mind
of man should not have reached what the power of gods
has not attained to.
132. But passing over these deeds which have been
already done, cannot anyone see from the proceedings that
are going on now just as much as ever, that the archplotter
and deviser of all these villainies is Chrysogonus^i
who took measures to get Sextus Eoscius accused, and out
of respect for whom Erucius said he brought the charge ?
[Lacuna in the Manuscrii:)ts.'\
Those who dwell among the Salentini and the Brutii think
they have a suitable coimtry-house fitted up in a reasonable
manner, when they can get news there hardly three
times a year.
133. But see, there comes the other down from his own
house on the Palatine : he has for his own enjoyment a
charming country estate in the neighbourhood of the city,
and many estates besides, and not one of them but is of
magnificent proportions and near at hand; his house is
crammed with specimens of Corinthian and DeUan bronze,
among which is that famous automatic cooking apparatus
which he recently purchased at so high a figure, that the
passers-by who heard the auctioneer calling out the sum
thought a farm was being sold. What quantities of embossed
silver do you think must have been in his house,
what stores of coverlets, what numbers of pictures, of
statues and marbles ? Of course there was just as much
as could be collected from many magnificent households ia
the midst of the general turmoil and spoliation, and heaped
up together in one house. But why should I mention the
numbers of his household and their varied accomplishments
?
134. I say nothing of these everyday arts,—of cooks,
bakers, and litter-bearers : he has so many men to dehght
his ear and his intellect that the whole neighbourhood
resounds with the melody of voices and stringed instruments
and pipes by day, and with uproarious cries by night.
In such a life, gentlemen, what extravagance, what prodi-