1Does Chrysogonus not want them examined in order to conceal a crime of his own? 1By no means, gentlemen; 1I do not think that everything applies to everyone. 1For my part, as far as I am concerned, I suspect nothing of the kind in Chrysogonus; 1nor is this the first time it has occurred to me to say so. 1You remember that at the outset I divided the case thus: into the charge, the whole argument of which was entrusted to Erucius, and into the audacity, whose role was assigned to the Roscii. 1Whatever there is of wrongdoing, crime and murder will have to be the Roscii's own. 1Chrysogonus' excessive influence and power, we say, both stand in our way and can in no way be endured, and ought, since the power has been given you, not only to be weakened by you but also to be punished.
123My view is this: that the man who wants an examination of those who are known to have been present when the murder was committed desires the truth to be found; 123the man who refuses it surely confesses his crime by the very fact, even though he does not dare to in words. 123I said at the beginning, gentlemen, that I did not wish to say more about these men's crime than the case demanded and necessity itself compelled. 123For many things can be brought forward, and each one of them can be argued with many proofs. 123But what I do unwillingly and out of necessity I cannot do at length or in detail.
123The things which could in no way be passed over I have touched on lightly, gentlemen; those which rest on suspicions, about which, if I began to speak, I should have to argue at greater length, I entrust to your intelligence and conjecture.