1In matters so clear, must argument still be sought or conjecture made? 1Do you not seem to yourselves, gentlemen, to behold with your eyes what you have heard? 1do you not see that wretched man, unaware of his fate, returning from dinner, do you not see the ambush laid, the sudden attack? 1is not Glaucia moving before your eyes amid the slaughter? 1is not that Titus Roscius present? 1does he not with his own hands set in the chariot that Automedon of his, the messenger of his most cruel crime and wicked victory? 1does he not beg him to stay awake all that night, to toil as a favour to him, to bring the news to Capito as soon as possible?
99What reason was there why he wanted Capito to know first? 99I do not know, except that I see this: that Capito is a partner in this property; 99of the thirteen farms I see that he possesses the three finest. 100I hear besides that this is not the first time suspicion of this kind has been cast on Capito; 100that he has won many palms of infamy, but that this is the first beribboned one to be conferred on him from Rome; 100that there is no way of killing a man by which he has not killed several, many by the sword, many by poison. 100I can even name a man whom, contrary to the custom of our ancestors, he threw from the bridge into the Tiber though he was not yet sixty.
100These things, if he comes forward, or rather when he comes forward — for I know he will come forward — he shall hear. 100Only let him come, let him unroll that scroll of his which I can prove to him that Erucius composed; 101the scroll which they say he brandished at Sextus Roscius, threatening that he would state it all in his evidence. 101O splendid witness, gentlemen! 101O dignity worthy of the expectation! 101O honourable life, and of such a kind that you would gladly fit your oath to his testimony! 101Surely we should not see the crimes of these men so clearly, unless greed and avarice and audacity made them blind.