Rosc. Am. 50.1Praedia mea tū possidēs, ego aliēnā misericordiā vīvō;You possess my estates, I live on the pity of others; Rosc. Am. 50.1concēdō, et quod animus aequus est et quia necesse est.I accept it, both because my mind is content and because I must. Rosc. Am. 50.1Mea domus tibi patet, mihi clausa est;My house is open to you, closed to me; Rosc. Am. 50.1ferō.I bear it. Rosc. Am. 50.1Familiā meā maximā tū ūteris, ego servum habeō nūllum;You use my very large household of slaves, I have not a single slave; Rosc. Am. 50.1patior et ferendum putō.I endure it and think it must be borne. Rosc. Am. 50.1Quid vīs amplius?What more do you want? Rosc. Am. 50.1quid īnsequeris, quid oppugnās?why do you pursue me, why do you attack me? Rosc. Am. 50.1quā in rē tuam voluntātem laedī ā mē putās?in what matter do you think your wishes are injured by me? Rosc. Am. 50.1ubi tuīs commodīs officiō?where do I stand in the way of your advantage? Rosc. Am. 50.1quid tibi obstō?how do I obstruct you? Rosc. Am. 50.1Sī spoliōrum causā vīs hominem occīdere, spoliāstī;If you want to kill the man for the sake of spoils, you have despoiled him; Rosc. Am. 50.1quid quaeris amplius?what more do you seek?
Rosc. Am. 50.1sī inimīcitiārum, quae sunt tibi inimīcitiae cum eō cuius ante praedia possēdistī quam ipsum cognōstī?if for the sake of enmity, what enmity have you with a man whose estates you possessed before you knew the man himself? Rosc. Am. 50.1sī metus, ab eōne aliquid metuis quem vidēs ipsum ab sē tam atrōcem iniūriam prōpulsāre nōn posse?if from fear, do you fear anything from a man who, as you see, cannot even ward off so atrocious a wrong from himself? Rosc. Am. 50.1sīn, quod bona quae Roscī fuērunt tua facta sunt, idcircō hunc illīus fīlium studēs perdere, nōnne ostendis id tē verērī quod praeter cēterōs tū metuere nōn dēbeās nē quandō līberīs prōscrīptōrum bona patria reddantur?but if it is because the goods which were Roscius' have become yours that you are eager to destroy this man, his son, are you not showing that you fear what you, beyond all others, ought not to fear: that one day their fathers' goods may be restored to the children of the proscribed? Rosc. Am. 50.146Facis iniūriam, Chrȳsogone, sī maiōrem spem ēmptiōnis tuae in huius exitiō pōnis quam in eīs rēbus quās L. Sulla gessit.You do wrong, Chrysogonus, if you place greater hope for your purchase in this man's destruction than in the acts which Lucius Sulla carried out.
Rosc. Am. 50.146Quod sī tibi causa nūlla est cūr hunc miserum tantā calamitāte adficī velīs, sī tibi omnia sua praeter animam trādidit nec sibi quicquam paternum nē monumentī quidem causā reservāvit, per deōs immortālīs!But if you have no reason for wishing this wretched man to be struck by so great a calamity, if he has handed over to you everything of his except his life and has kept back for himself nothing of his father's, not even as a keepsake, by the immortal gods! Rosc. Am. 50.146quae ista tanta crūdēlitās est, quae tam fera immānisque nātūra?what is this enormous cruelty, what nature so savage and monstrous? Rosc. Am. 50.146Quis umquam praedō fuit tam nefārius, Quis pīrāta tam barbarus ut, cum integram praedam sine sanguine habēre posset, cruenta spolia dētrahere māllet?What robber was ever so wicked, what pirate so barbarous, that, when he could have the whole of his plunder without bloodshed, he would rather strip off spoils dripping with blood? Rosc. Am. 50.147Scīs hunc nihil habēre, nihil audēre, nihil posse, nihil umquam contrā rem tuam cōgitāsse, et tamen oppugnās eum quem neque metuere potes neque ōdisse dēbēs nec quicquam iam habēre reliquī vidēs quod eī dētrahere possīs.You know that this man has nothing, dares nothing, can do nothing, has never plotted anything against your interests, and yet you attack one whom you cannot fear, ought not to hate, and who, you see, has nothing left that you could take from him.
Rosc. Am. 50.147Nisi hoc indignum putās, quod vestītum sedēre in iūdiciō vidēs quem tū ē patrimōniō tamquam ē naufragiō nūdum expulistī.Unless you think it an outrage that you see sitting in court fully clothed the man whom you threw out of his inheritance naked, as though from a shipwreck. Rosc. Am. 50.147Quasi vērō nesciās hunc et alī et vestīrī ā Caeciliā Baliāricī fīlia, Nepōtis sorōre, spectātissimā fēminā, quae cum patrem clārissimum, amplissimōs patruōs, ōrnātissimum frātrem habēret, tamen, cum esset mulier, virtūte perfēcit ut, quantō honōre ipsa ex illōrum dignitāte adficerētur, nōn minōra illīs ōrnāmenta ex suā laude redderet.As if indeed you did not know that he is both fed and clothed by Caecilia, daughter of Balearicus and sister of Nepos, a most highly respected woman, who, though she had a most distinguished father, very eminent uncles and a most accomplished brother, still, woman though she was, achieved by her virtue that, however great the honour she herself received from their rank, she returned to them distinctions no less great from her own merit.