Rosc. Am. 42.1Chrȳsogonus suīne maleficī occultandī causā quaestiōnem dē eīs habērī nōn volt?Does Chrysogonus not want them examined in order to conceal a crime of his own? Rosc. Am. 42.1Minimē, iūdicēs;By no means, gentlemen; Rosc. Am. 42.1nōn in omnīs arbitror omnia convenīre.I do not think that everything applies to everyone. Rosc. Am. 42.1Ego in Chrȳsogonō, quod ad mē attinet, nihil eius modī suspicor;For my part, as far as I am concerned, I suspect nothing of the kind in Chrysogonus; Rosc. Am. 42.1neque hoc mihi nunc prīmum in mentem venit dīcere.nor is this the first time it has occurred to me to say so. Rosc. Am. 42.1Meministis mē ita distribuisse initiō causam: in crīmen cuius tōta argūmentātiō permissa Eruciō est, et in audāciam cuius partēs Rosciīs impositae sunt.You 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. Rosc. Am. 42.1Quicquid maleficī, sceleris, caedis erit, proprium id Rosciōrum esse dēbēbit.Whatever there is of wrongdoing, crime and murder will have to be the Roscii's own. Rosc. Am. 42.1Nimiam grātiam potentiamque Chrȳsogonī dīcimus et nōbīs obstāre et perferrī nūllō modō posse et ā vōbīs, quoniam potestās data est, nōn modo īnfirmārī vērum etiam vindicārī oportēre.Chrysogonus' 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.
Rosc. Am. 42.123Ego sīc exīstimō, quī quaerī velit ex eīs quōs cōnstat, cum caedēs facta sit, adfuisse, eum cupere vērum invenīrī;My 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; Rosc. Am. 42.123quī id recūset, eum profectō, tametsī verbō nōn audeat, tamen rē ipsā dē maleficiō suō cōnfitērī.the man who refuses it surely confesses his crime by the very fact, even though he does not dare to in words. Rosc. Am. 42.123Dīxī initiō, iūdicēs, nōlle mē plūra dē istōrum scelere dīcere quam causa postulāret ac necessitās ipsa cōgeret.I 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. Rosc. Am. 42.123Nam et multae rēs adferrī possunt, et ūna quaeque eārum multīs cum argūmentīs dīcī potest.For many things can be brought forward, and each one of them can be argued with many proofs. Rosc. Am. 42.123Vērum ego quod invītus ac necessāriō faciō neque diū neque dīligenter facere possum.But what I do unwillingly and out of necessity I cannot do at length or in detail.
Rosc. Am. 42.123Quae praeterīrī nūllō modō poterant, ea leviter, iūdicēs, attigī, quae posita sunt in suspīciōnibus dē quibus, sī coeperō dīcere, plūribus verbīs sit disserendum, ea vestrīs ingeniīs coniectūraeque committō.The 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.