1Let us now look briefly, as with the rest, at what was done by you, Titus Roscius, after the death of Sextus Roscius; 1and these things are so open and manifest that, so help me, gentlemen of the jury, I shall speak of them unwillingly. 1For I fear, whatever sort of man you are, Titus Roscius, that I may seem to have wished to save my client in such a way as to have spared you not at all. 1While I fear this, and wish to spare you in some measure, as far as I can with good faith, I change my mind again; 1for your face comes into my mind.
1Did you, when the rest of your partners were fleeing and hiding themselves, so that this trial might seem to be held not about their plunder but about my client's crime, demand that particular role for yourself above all, so that you might busy yourself in the trial and sit beside the prosecutor? 1In this you achieve nothing else but that your audacity and shamelessness become known to all mortals. 96When Sextus Roscius had been killed, who first brought the news to Ameria? 96Mallius Glaucia, whom I named earlier, your client and intimate friend. 96What business was it of his, above all men, to report something which, if you had formed no plan beforehand concerning his death and his property, and had entered into no partnership either in crime or in reward with any man, concerned you least of all?
96— Mallius brings the news of his own accord. 96— What, I ask, was it to him? 96Or, when he had come to Ameria for some other purpose, did it happen by chance that he was the first to report what he had heard at Rome? 96For what purpose had he come to Ameria? 96'I cannot,' he says, 'guess.' 96I shall now bring the matter to the point where there is no need of guessing. 96On what grounds did he bring the news first to Titus Roscius Capito? 96When Sextus Roscius' house, wife and children were at Ameria, when there were so many relatives and kinsmen on the best of terms with him, how did it come about that this client of yours, the messenger of your crime, brought the news to Titus Roscius Capito above all?
97He was killed returning from dinner; 97it was not yet light when it was known at Ameria. 97What does this incredible run, what does this great speed and haste signify? 97I do not ask who struck the blow; 97there is nothing, Glaucia, for you to fear; 97I do not shake you out to see whether you happened to have some steel on you, I do not search you; 97I think that has nothing to do with me; 97since I discover by whose plan he was killed, I do not trouble myself about by whose hand he was struck. 97I take this one point, which your open crime and the manifest facts give me: where or from whom did Glaucia hear it?
97how did he know so quickly? 97Suppose he heard it at once; 97what compelled him to press on so long a journey in a single night? 97what necessity pressed him so hard that, if he was making the journey to Ameria of his own accord, he set out from Rome at that hour and rested no part of the night?