Rosc. Am. 53.1Quod sī id vōs suscipitis et eam ad rem operam vestram profitēminī, sī idcircō sedētis ut ad vōs addūcantur eōrum līberī quōrum bona vēniērunt, cavēte, per deōs immortālīs!But if you take this upon yourselves and offer your services for this purpose, if you sit here so that the children of those whose goods have been sold may be brought before you, take care, by the immortal gods! Rosc. Am. 53.1iūdicēs, nē nova et multō crūdēlior per vōs prōscrīptiō īnstaurāta esse videātur.judges, that a new and far crueller proscription does not seem to have been set on foot through you. Rosc. Am. 53.1Illam priōrem quae facta est in eōs quī arma capere potuērunt tamen senātus suscipere nōluit, nē quid ācrius quam mōre maiōrum comparātum est pūblicō cōnsiliō factum vidērētur, hanc vērō quae ad eōrum līberōs atque ad īnfantium puerōrum incūnābula pertinet nisi hōc iūdiciō ā vōbīs rēicitis et aspernāminī, vidēte, per deōs immortālīs!That earlier one, which was carried out against those who were able to bear arms, the senate nevertheless refused to sanction, so that nothing might seem to have been done by public authority more harshly than the custom of our ancestors had established; but this one, which extends to their children and to the very cradles of infants, unless you reject and spurn it in this trial, see, by the immortal gods!
Rosc. Am. 53.1quem in locum rem pūblicam perventūram putētis!to what point you think the commonwealth will come! Rosc. Am. 53.154Hominēs sapientēs et istā auctōritāte et potestāte praeditōs quā vōs estis ex quibus rēbus maximē rēs pūblica labōrat, eīs maximē medērī convenit.It befits wise men, endowed with such authority and power as you possess, to bring remedies above all to the ills from which the commonwealth most suffers. Rosc. Am. 53.154Vestrum nēmō est quīn intellegat populum Rōmānum quī quondam in hostīs lēnissimus exīstimābātur hōc tempore domesticā crūdēlitāte labōrāre.There is none of you who does not understand that the Roman people, once thought most merciful towards its enemies, is at this time suffering from cruelty at home. Rosc. Am. 53.154Hanc tollite ex cīvitāte, iūdicēs, hanc patī nōlīte diūtius in hāc rē pūblicā versārī;Remove this from the state, judges, refuse to allow it to range any longer in this commonwealth; Rosc. Am. 53.154quae nōn modo id habet in sē malī quod tot cīvīs atrōcissimē sustulit vērum etiam hominibus lēnissimīs adēmit misericordiam cōnsuētūdine incommodōrum.for it has not only this evil in it, that it has destroyed so many citizens most atrociously, but it has also taken pity away from the gentlest of men by making them used to misfortunes.
Rosc. Am. 53.154Nam cum omnibus hōrīs aliquid atrōciter fierī vidēmus aut audīmus, etiam quī nātūrā mītissimī sumus adsiduitāte molestiārum sēnsum omnem hūmānitātis ex animīs āmittimus.For when every hour we see or hear of something being done atrociously, even those of us who are by nature most gentle lose from our hearts, through the constant succession of troubles, all feeling of humanity.