1For when this Sextus Roscius was at Ameria, but this Titus Roscius at Rome, when the son here was constantly on the farms and had devoted himself, by his father's wish, to the family estate and to country life, while the other was often at Rome, Sextus Roscius was killed near the Pallacine baths as he was returning from dinner. 1I hope that from this very fact it is not obscure to whom the suspicion of the crime attaches; 1but if the facts themselves do not make clear what is so far only a matter of suspicion, judge this man to be implicated in the guilt. 19When Sextus Roscius had been killed, the first to bring the news to Ameria is a certain Mallius Glaucia, a man of no means, a freedman, a client and intimate of this Titus Roscius, and he brings the news to the house not of the son but of Titus Capito, the dead man's enemy; 19and though he had been killed after the first hour of the night, this messenger arrived at Ameria at the first light of dawn; 19in ten hours of night he flew fifty-six miles in light carriages, not only so that he might be the first to bring his enemy the news he longed for, but also so that he might show him the blood of his enemy, as fresh as could be, and the weapon drawn from the body a little before.
20Four days after these events the matter is reported to Chrysogonus in the camp of Lucius Sulla at Volaterrae; 20the size of the fortune is pointed out; 20the quality of the farms — for he left thirteen estates, almost all of which border the Tiber — and this man's helplessness and isolation are mentioned; 20they point out that, since the father of this man, Sextus Roscius, a man so distinguished and so popular, was killed without any trouble, this man, unwary, rustic and unknown at Rome, can very easily be got out of the way; 20they promise their help in this matter.