1First, I ask Chrysogonus to be content with our money and fortunes, and not to seek our blood and life; 1next, I ask you, judges, to resist the crime of reckless men, to relieve the misfortune of the innocent, and in the case of Sextus Roscius to ward off the danger that threatens everyone. 8But if either a ground for the charge or a suspicion of the deed or, in short, any matter at all, however small, is found to show that they had at least some reason in bringing the prosecution, if finally you find any other motive apart from that plunder which I have mentioned, we do not refuse to let the life of Sextus Roscius be surrendered to their lust.
8But if nothing else is at stake except that those for whom nothing is enough should lack nothing, if the only fight at this time is for the condemnation of Sextus Roscius to be added like a crowning heap to that rich and splendid plunder, is it not, among many outrages, this above all that is most outrageous, that you have been thought fit instruments through whose verdicts and oaths they might gain what they have formerly been accustomed to gain by crime and the sword themselves? 8that you, who have been chosen from the citizen body into the senate for your worth, and from the senate onto this jury for your strictness, should be asked by assassins and gladiators not only to let them escape the punishments which they ought to fear and dread at your hands for their misdeeds, but even to let them depart from this trial adorned and enriched with spoils?