Rosc. Am. 44.1In quem hoc dīcam quaeris, Erucī?Do you ask against whom I say this, Erucius? Rosc. Am. 44.1Nōn in eum quem vīs et putās;Not against the man you want and suppose; Rosc. Am. 44.1nam Sullam et ōrātiō mea ab initiō et ipsīus eximia virtūs omnī tempore pūrgāvit.for Sulla has been cleared both by my speech from the beginning and by his own outstanding merit at all times. Rosc. Am. 44.1Ego haec omnia Chrȳsogonum fēcisse dīcō, ut ēmentīrētur, ut malum cīvem Sex. Roscium fuisse fingeret, ut eum apud adversāriōs occīsum esse dīceret, ut hīs dē rēbus ā lēgātīs Amerīnōrum docērī L. Sullam passus nōn sit.I say that Chrysogonus did all this: that he lied, that he made out that Sextus Roscius had been a bad citizen, that he said he had been killed among the enemy, that he did not allow Lucius Sulla to be informed of these matters by the envoys of the Amerians. Rosc. Am. 44.1Dēnique etiam illud suspicor, omnīnō haec bona nōn vēnīsse;Finally, I suspect this too, that this property was never sold at all; Rosc. Am. 44.1id quod posteā, sī per vōs, iūdicēs, licitum erit, aperiētur.which will be revealed later, gentlemen, if you permit it.
Rosc. Am. 44.128Opīnor enim esse in lēge quam ad diem prōscrīptiōnēs vēnditiōnēsque fīant, nīmīrum Kalendās Iūniās.For I believe there is in the law a date by which proscriptions and sales are to be made, namely the first of June. Rosc. Am. 44.128Aliquot post mēnsīs et homō occīsus est et bona vēnīsse dīcuntur.Some months later the man was killed and the property is said to have been sold. Rosc. Am. 44.128Profectō aut haec bona in tabulās pūblicās nūlla rediērunt nōsque ab istō nebulōne facētius ēlūdimur quam putāmus, aut, sī rediērunt, tabulae pūblicae corruptae aliquā ratiōne sunt;Surely either none of this property has come into the public accounts and we are being fooled by that scoundrel more cleverly than we think, or, if it has, the public accounts have been falsified in some way; Rosc. Am. 44.128nam lēge quidem bona vēnīre nōn potuisse cōnstat.for it is agreed that the property at any rate could not have been sold lawfully. Rosc. Am. 44.128Intellegō mē ante tempus, iūdicēs, haec scrūtārī et prope modum errāre quī, cum capitī Sex. Roscī medērī dēbeam, reduviam cūrem.I realise, gentlemen, that I am examining these things before the proper time, and am almost going astray, since, when I ought to be healing the head of Sextus Roscius, I am tending a hangnail.
Rosc. Am. 44.128Nōn enim labōrat dē pecūniā, nōn ūllīus ratiōnem suī commodī dūcit;For he is not troubled about money, he takes no account of any advantage of his own; Rosc. Am. 44.128facile egestātem suam sē lātūrum putat, sī hāc indignā suspīciōne et fictō crīmine līberātus sit.he thinks he will easily bear his poverty, if he is freed from this undeserved suspicion and fabricated charge. Rosc. Am. 44.129Vērum quaesō ā vōbīs, iūdicēs, ut haec pauca quae restant ita audiātis ut partim mē dīcere prō mē ipsō putētis, partim prō Sex. Rosciō.But I ask of you, gentlemen, to listen to these few remaining points in such a way that you consider that I am speaking partly for myself, partly for Sextus Roscius. Rosc. Am. 44.129Quae enim mihi ipsī indigna et intolerābilia videntur quaeque ad omnīs, nisi prōvidēmus, arbitror pertinēre, ea prō mē ipsō ex animī meī sēnsū ac dolōre prōnūntiō;For the things that seem to me personally undeserved and intolerable, and which I think concern everyone unless we take care, these I declare on my own behalf from the feeling and pain of my heart; Rosc. Am. 44.129quae ad huius vītae cāsum causamque pertinent et quid hic prō sē dīcī velit et quā condiciōne contentus sit iam in extrēmā ōrātiōne nostrā, iūdicēs, audiētis.what concerns the peril to this man's life and his case, and what he wishes to be said on his behalf, and with what terms he is content, you will hear, gentlemen, at the very end of my speech.