Rosc. Am. 8.1Nē diūtius teneam, iūdicēs, societās coitur.Not to keep you any longer, judges, a partnership is formed. Rosc. Am. 8.1Cum nūlla iam prōscrīptiōnis mentiō fieret, cum etiam quī anteā metuerant redīrent ac iam dēfūnctōs sēsē perīculīs arbitrārentur, nōmen refertur in tabulās Sex. Roscī, hominis studiōsissimī nōbilitātis;When 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; Rosc. Am. 8.1manceps fit Chrȳsogonus;Chrysogonus becomes the purchaser; Rosc. Am. 8.1tria praedia vel nōbilissima Capitōnī propria trāduntur, quae hodiē possidet;three farms, perhaps the finest, are handed over to Capito as his own, and he holds them today; Rosc. Am. 8.1in reliquās omnīs fortūnās iste T. Roscius nōmine Chrȳsogonī, quem ad modum ipse dīcit, impetum facit.on all the rest of the property this Titus Roscius makes an assault in the name of Chrysogonus, as he himself says. Rosc. Am. 8.1Haec omnia, iūdicēs, imprūdente L. Sullā facta esse certō sciō.All this, judges, I know for certain was done without the knowledge of Lucius Sulla.
Rosc. Am. 8.22Neque enim mīrum, cum eōdem tempore et ea quae praeterita sunt reparet et ea quae videntur īnstāre praeparet, cum et pācis cōnstituendae ratiōnem et bellī gerendī potestātem sōlus habeat, cum omnēs in ūnum spectent, ūnus omnia gubernet, cum tot tantīsque negōtiīs distentus sit ut respīrāre līberē nōn possit, sī aliquid nōn animadvertat, cum praesertim tam multī occupātiōnem eius observent tempusque aucupentur ut, simul atque ille dēspexerit, aliquid huiusce modī mōliantur.Nor 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.
Rosc. Am. 8.22Hūc accēdit quod, quamvīs ille fēlīx sit, sīcut est, tamen in tantā fēlīcitāte nēmō potest esse in magnā familiā quī nēminem neque servum neque lībertum improbum habeat.Added 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. Rosc. Am. 8.23Intereā iste T. Roscius, vir optimus, prōcūrātor Chrȳsogonī, Ameriam vēnit, in praedia huius invādit, hunc miserum, lūctū perditum, quī nōndum etiam omnia paternō fūnerī iūsta solvisset, nūdum ēicit domō atque focīs patriīs dīsque penātibus praecipitem, iūdicēs, exturbat, ipse amplissimae pecūniae fit dominus.Meanwhile 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. Rosc. Am. 8.23Quī in suā rē fuisset egentissimus, erat, ut fit, īnsolēns in aliēnā;He who had been utterly destitute in his own affairs was, as usually happens, insolent in another's; Rosc. Am. 8.23multa palam domum suam auferēbat, plūra clam dē mediō removēbat, nōn pauca suīs adiūtōribus lārgē effūsēque dōnābat, reliqua cōnstitūtā auctiōne vēndēbat.many 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.