Rosc. Am. 39.1Ergō idcircō turpis haec culpa est, quod duās rēs sānctissimās violat, amīcitiam et fidem.This fault, then, is disgraceful for this reason, that it violates two most sacred things, friendship and good faith. Rosc. Am. 39.1Nam neque mandat quisquam ferē nisi amīcō neque crēdit nisi eī quem fidēlem putat.For hardly anyone gives a commission except to a friend, or trusts anyone except one whom he thinks faithful. Rosc. Am. 39.1Perditissimī est igitur hominis simul et amīcitiam dissolvere et fallere eum quī laesus nōn esset, nisi crēdidisset.It is the mark of a thoroughly abandoned man, therefore, at once to break up a friendship and to deceive one who would not have been harmed if he had not trusted. Rosc. Am. 39.113Itanē est?Is that so? Rosc. Am. 39.113in minimīs rēbus quī mandātum neglēxerit, turpissimō iūdiciō condemnētur necesse est, in rē tantā cum is cui fāma mortuī, fortūnae vīvī commendātae sunt atque concrēditae, ignōminiā mortuum, inopiā vīvum adfēcerit, is inter honestōs hominēs atque adeō inter vīvōs numerābitur?in the smallest matters the man who neglects a commission must be condemned in a most disgraceful trial; in a matter so great, when the man to whom the good name of the dead and the fortunes of the living were entrusted and committed has brought disgrace on the dead and destitution on the living, shall he be counted among honourable men, or indeed among the living at all?
Rosc. Am. 39.113In minimīs prīvātīsque rēbus etiam neglegentia in crīmen mandātī iūdiciumque īnfāmiae vocātur, proptereā quod, sī rēctē fīat, illum neglegere oporteat quī mandārit nōn illum quī mandātum recēperit;In the smallest private matters even negligence is brought into a charge of breach of commission and a trial involving infamy, because, if things are done rightly, it is the one who gave the commission who may be careless, not the one who accepted it; Rosc. Am. 39.113in rē tantā quae pūblicē gesta atque commissa sit quī nōn neglegentiā prīvātum aliquod commodum laeserit sed perfidiā lēgātiōnis ipsīus caerimōniam polluerit maculāque adfēcerit, quā is tandem poenā adficiētur aut quō iūdiciō damnābitur?in a matter so great, which was transacted and entrusted publicly, the man who has not harmed some private interest through negligence, but has polluted and stained by his treachery the sanctity of the embassy itself, with what penalty, pray, will he be punished, or by what trial condemned? Rosc. Am. 39.114sī hanc eī rem prīvātim Sex. Roscius mandāvisset ut cum Chrȳsogonō trānsigeret atque dēcideret, inque eam rem fidem suam, sī quid opus esse putāret, interpōneret, ille quī sēsē factūrum recēpisset, nōnne, sī ex eō negōtiō tantulum in rem suam convertisset, damnātus per arbitrum et rem restitueret et honestātem omnem āmitteret?if Sextus Roscius had entrusted this matter to him privately, to settle and come to terms with Chrysogonus, and to pledge his own credit for that purpose if he thought it at all necessary, would not the man who had undertaken to do it, if he had turned even a little of that business to his own profit, be condemned by an arbiter, and both restore the money and lose all his good name?
Rosc. Am. 39.115Nunc nōn hanc eī rem Sex. Roscius mandāvit sed, id quod multō gravius est, ipse Sex. Roscius cum fāmā vītā bonīsque omnibus ā decuriōnibus pūblicē T. Rosciō mandātus est;As it is, Sextus Roscius did not entrust this matter to him, but, what is much more serious, Sextus Roscius himself, with his reputation, his life and all his property, was entrusted publicly by the town councillors to Titus Roscius; Rosc. Am. 39.115et ex eō T. Roscius nōn paululum nesciō quid in rem suam convertit sed hunc funditus ēvertit bonīs, ipse tria praedia sibi dēpectus est, voluntātem decuriōnum ac mūnicipum omnium tantīdem quantī fidem suam fēcit.and out of this Titus Roscius has not turned some little thing or other to his own profit, but has turned my client out of his property root and branch, has bargained three estates for himself, and has valued the wishes of the councillors and of all the townsmen at exactly as much as his own good faith.