Rosc. Am. 22.1Respīrāre vīsus est quod nōn alius potius dīceret.He seemed to breathe again because it was no one else rather than I who was speaking. Rosc. Am. 22.1Coepī dīcere.I began to speak. Rosc. Am. 22.1Vsque eō animadvertī, iūdicēs, eum iocārī atque aliās rēs agere ante quam Chrȳsogonum nōmināvī;Up to the moment, judges, when I named Chrysogonus, I noticed that he was joking and busy with other things; Rosc. Am. 22.1quem simul atque attigī, statim homō sē ērēxit, mīrārī vīsus est.but as soon as I touched on him, the fellow at once sat up and seemed astonished. Rosc. Am. 22.1Intellēxī quid eum pepugisset.I understood what had stung him. Rosc. Am. 22.1Iterum ac tertiō nōmināvī.I named him a second and a third time. Rosc. Am. 22.1Posteā hominēs cursāre ultrō et citrō nōn dēstitērunt, crēdō, quī Chrȳsogonō nūntiārent esse aliquem in cīvitāte quī contrā voluntātem eius dīcere audēret;After that, people kept running to and fro, to tell Chrysogonus, I suppose, that there was someone in the state who dared to speak against his wishes; Rosc. Am. 22.1aliter causam agī atque ille exīstimāret, aperīrī bonōrum ēmptiōnem, vexārī pessimē societātem, grātiam potentiamque eius neglegī, iūdicēs dīligenter attendere, populō rem indignam vidērī.that the case was being conducted otherwise than he had supposed, the purchase of the property was being exposed, the partnership was being very roughly handled, his influence and power were being disregarded, the judges were listening carefully, and the people thought the affair outrageous.
Rosc. Am. 22.61Quae quoniam tē fefellērunt, Erucī, quoniamque vidēs versa esse omnia, causam prō Sex. Rosciō, sī nōn commodē, at līberē dīcī, quem dedī putābās dēfendī intellegis, quōs trāditūrōs spērābās vidēs iūdicāre, restitue nōbīs aliquandō veterem tuam illam calliditātem atque prūdentiam, cōnfitēre hūc eā spē vēnisse quod putārēs hīc latrōcinium, nōn iūdicium futūrum.Since these things have deceived you, Erucius, and since you see that everything has been turned round, that the case for Sextus Roscius is being pleaded, if not skilfully, at least freely, that the man you thought had been handed over you realise is being defended, that those you hoped would hand him over you see are judging him, give us back at last that old cunning and shrewdness of yours, and confess that you came here in the hope that there would be a robbery here, not a trial. Rosc. Am. 22.61Dē parricīdiō causa dīcitur;The charge being tried is parricide; Rosc. Am. 22.61ratiō ab accūsātōre reddita nōn est quam ob causam patrem fīlius occīderit.no reason has been given by the accuser why the son killed his father.
Rosc. Am. 22.62Quod in minimīs noxiīs et in hīs leviōribus peccātīs quae magis crēbra et iam prope cōtīdiāna sunt vel maximē et prīmum quaeritur, quae causa maleficī fuerit, id Erucius in parricīdiō quaerī nōn putat oportēre.What in the smallest offences, and in those lighter faults which are more frequent and by now almost daily, is asked above all and first, namely what the motive for the crime was, that Erucius thinks need not be asked in a case of parricide. Rosc. Am. 22.62In quō scelere, iūdicēs, etiam cum multae causae convēnisse ūnum in locum atque inter sē congruere videntur, tamen nōn temerē crēditur, neque levī coniectūrā rēs penditur, neque testis incertus audītur, neque accūsātōris ingeniō rēs iūdicātur.In that crime, judges, even when many motives seem to have come together in one place and to agree with one another, still it is not believed rashly, nor is the matter weighed on slight conjecture, nor is an unreliable witness heard, nor is the case decided by the accuser's cleverness. Rosc. Am. 22.62Cum multa anteā commissa maleficia, cum vīta hominis perditissima, tum singulāris audācia ostendātur necesse est, neque audācia sōlum sed summus furor atque āmentia.There must be shown not only many crimes committed earlier and a man's utterly abandoned life, but also a singular audacity, and not audacity alone but the utmost frenzy and madness.
Rosc. Am. 22.62Haec cum sint omnia, tamen exstent oportet expressa sceleris vestīgia, ubi, quā ratiōne, per quōs, quō tempore maleficium sit admissum.Even when all these are present, there must still be clear traces of the crime: where, by what means, through whom, at what time the crime was committed. Rosc. Am. 22.62Quae nisi multa et manifesta sunt, profectō rēs tam scelesta, tam atrōx, tam nefāria crēdī nōn potest.And unless these are many and manifest, surely a deed so wicked, so atrocious, so unholy cannot be believed. Rosc. Am. 22.63Magna est enim vīs hūmānitātis;For great is the force of human feeling; Rosc. Am. 22.63multum valet commūniō sanguinis;the bond of blood counts for much; Rosc. Am. 22.63reclāmitat istīus modī suspīciōnibus ipsa nātūra;nature herself cries out against suspicions of that kind; Rosc. Am. 22.63portentum atque mōnstrum certissimum est esse aliquem hūmānā speciē et figūrā quī tantum immānitāte bēstiās vīcerit ut, propter quōs hanc suāvissimam lūcem aspēxerit, eōs indignissimē lūce prīvārit, cum etiam ferās inter sēsē partus atque ēducātiō et nātūra ipsa conciliet.it is a most certain portent and prodigy that there should be anyone in human shape and form who has so far surpassed the beasts in savagery that he has most shamefully robbed of the light those through whom he first beheld this sweetest light, when even wild animals are bound to one another by birth and rearing and by nature herself.