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  • M. Tulli Ciceroni pro P. Quinctio Oratio
  • PRO Q. ROSCIO COMOEDO ORATIO
  • PRO A. CAECINA ORATIO
  • Orationes de Lege Agraria
  • PRO C. RABIRIO PERDVELLIONIS REO AD QVIRITES ORATIO
  • PRO L. FLACCO ORATIO
  • IN L. CALPVRNIVM PISONEM ORATIO
  • PRO C. RABIRIO POSTVMO ORATIO
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    M. Tullius Cicero, Orationes: Pro P. Quinctio, Pro Q. Roscio comoedo, Pro A. Caecina, De lege agraria contra Rullum, Pro C. Rabiro perduellionis reo, Pro L. Flacco, In L. Pisonem, Pro C. Rabiro Postumo (ed. Albert Clark)

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    PRO Q. ROSCIO COMOEDO ORATIO

    I. . . . . malitiam naturae crederetur. is scilicet vir optimus et singulari fide praeditus in suo iudicio suis tabulis testibus uti conatur. solent fere dicere qui per tabulas hominis honesti pecuniam expensam tulerunt: 'egone talem virum corrumpere potui, ut mea causa falsum in codicem referret?' exspecto quam mox Chaerea hac oratione utatur: 'egone hanc manum plenam perfidiae et hos digitos meos impellere potui ut falsum perscriberent nomen?' quod si ille suas proferet tabulas, proferet suas quoque Roscius. erit in illius tabulis hoc nomen, at huius non erit. [2] cur potius illius quam huius credetur?-- scripsisset ille, si non iussu huius expensum tulisset? --non scripsisset hic quod sibi expensum ferre iussisset? nam quem ad modum turpe est scribere quod non debeatur, sic improbum est non referre quod debeas. aeque enim tabulae condemnantur eius qui verum non rettulit et eius qui falsum perscripsit. sed ego copia et facultate causae confisus vide quo progrediar. si tabulas C. Fannius accepti et expensi profert suas in suam rem suo arbitratu scriptas, quo minus secundum illum iudicetis non recuso. [3] quis hoc frater fratri, quis parens filio tribuit ut, quodcumque rettulisset, id ratum haberet? ratum habebit Roscius; profer; quod tibi fuerit persuasum, huic erit persuasum, quod tibi fuerit probatum, huic erit probatum. Paulo ante M. Perpennae, P. Saturi tabulas poscebamus, nunc tuas, C. Fanni Chaerea, solius flagitamus et quo minus secundum eas lis detur non recusamus; quid ita non profers? [4] non conficit tabulas? immo diligentissime. non refert parva nomina in codices? immo omnis summas. leve et tenue hoc nomen est? HS ccciↃↃↃ sunt. quo modo tibi tanta pecunia extraordinaria iacet? quo modo HS ccciↃↃↃ in codice accepti et expensi non sunt? pro di immortales! essene quemquam tanta audacia praeditum qui, quod nomen referre in tabulas timeat, id petere audeat, quod in codicem iniuratus referre noluerit, id iurare in litem non dubitet, quod sibi probare non possit, id persuadere alteri conetur!

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    M. Tullius Cicero. M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes: Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Albertus Curtis Clark. Albert Clark. Oxonii. e Typographeo Clarendoniano. 1909. Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis.
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