1Not to keep you any longer, judges, a partnership is formed. 1When there was no longer any mention of proscription, when even those who had been afraid before were returning and thought themselves now done with dangers, the name of Sextus Roscius, a man most devoted to the nobility, is entered in the lists; 1Chrysogonus becomes the purchaser; 1three farms, perhaps the finest, are handed over to Capito as his own, and he holds them today; 1on all the rest of the property this Titus Roscius makes an assault in the name of Chrysogonus, as he himself says. 1All this, judges, I know for certain was done without the knowledge of Lucius Sulla.
22Nor indeed is it surprising, since at one and the same time he is repairing the past and preparing for what seems to be threatening, since he alone has the planning of the peace to be established and the power of waging war, since all look to one man and one man governs everything, since he is distracted by so many and such great affairs that he cannot breathe freely, if he fails to notice something, especially when so many men are watching for his moments of preoccupation and lying in wait for their opportunity, so that, as soon as he looks away, they may contrive something of this kind.
22Added to this is the fact that, however fortunate he may be, as indeed he is, still, in such great good fortune, no one can have a large household without having some rogue, whether slave or freedman. 23Meanwhile this Titus Roscius, an excellent man, the agent of Chrysogonus, comes to Ameria, invades this man's farms, and throws this poor man, ruined by grief, who had not yet even paid all the due rites at his father's funeral, out of his house stripped of everything, and drives him headlong, judges, from his ancestral hearth and household gods, and himself becomes master of a very ample fortune. 23He who had been utterly destitute in his own affairs was, as usually happens, insolent in another's; 23many things he openly carried off to his own house, more he secretly made away with, not a few he gave generously and lavishly to his helpers, and the rest he sold at an auction he arranged.