1Indeed, since you have learned the master's good faith, learn now the pupil's fairness. 1I have said before that two slaves were repeatedly demanded from these men for examination under torture. 1You, Titus Roscius, have always refused. 1I ask you: 'Were those who demanded them unworthy to obtain their request, or did the man on whose behalf they demanded them not move you, or did the request itself seem unfair to you?' 1Those who demanded them were the noblest and most upright men of our state, whom I have already named; 1men who have so lived and are so regarded by the Roman people that, whatever they said, there would be no one who did not think it fair.
1And they demanded them on behalf of a most wretched and unfortunate man, who would even wish himself to be handed over to torture, provided an inquiry were made into his father's death. 120Moreover, the thing demanded of you was such that it made no difference whether you refused it or confessed to the crime. 120Since this is so, I ask you why you refused. 120When Sextus Roscius was killed, they were on the spot. 120The slaves themselves, as far as I am concerned, I neither accuse nor clear; 120that I see you fighting to prevent their being handed over for examination is suspicious; 120but that they are held in such honour by you yourselves means that they must surely know something which, if they told it, would be ruinous to you.
120— It is unfair for slaves to be examined against their masters. 120— But they are not being examined so; 120for Sextus Roscius is the defendant; 120for when the inquiry concerns him, it is not an inquiry against their masters; 120for you say that you are their masters. 120— They are with Chrysogonus. 120— So I believe; 120Chrysogonus is so taken with their learning and refinement that he wants them, men who are practically labourers, trained in the Amerian school of a country householder, to mix among his own young slaves, skilled in every delight and every art, chosen from so many most elegant households. 121It is surely not so, gentlemen; 121it is not likely that Chrysogonus has fallen in love with their learning or culture, nor that he has come to know their diligence and fidelity in managing his household affairs.
121There is something that is being concealed; 121and the more eagerly it is suppressed and hidden by these men, the more it stands out and appears. 121What then?