pro rosico 5-6

forsitan quaeratis, qui iste terror sit et quae tanta formido, quae totac tales viros impediat quo minus pro capite et fortunis alterius, quem ad modum consuerunt, causam velint dicere.

Perhaps you may ask what that terror is and what [that] very great fear which prevents so many and such men from wanting to plead the case on behalf of the life and fortunes of another as they are accustomed to.

quod adhuc vos ignorare non mirum est, propterea quod consulto abaccusatoribus eius rei, quae conflavit hoc iudicium, mentio facta nonest.

That you are still unaware is not surprising, for this reason that mention of that matter which gave rise to this case has not been made by the accusers deliberately.

quae res ea est?

What is that matter?

bona patris huiusce Sex. Roscii, quae sunt sexagiens, quae de virofortissimo et clarissimo L. Sulla, quem honoris causa nomino, duobusmilibus nummum sese dicit emisse adulescens vel potentissimus hoctempore nostrae civitatis, L. Cornelius Chrysogonus.

it is the property of the father of this man, SR, which comes to 6 million sesterces, which a young man, perhaps the most powerful in our state at this time, LCC, says he bought from a very brave and very distinguished man S, whom I name for the sake of honour, for the low price of two thousand sesterces.

is a vobis, iudices, hoc postulat, ut, quoniam in alienam pecuniamtam plenam atque praeclaram nullo iure invaserit, quoniamque eipecuniae vita Sex. Roscii obstare atque officere videatur,

that man demands this from you, jurors, that, since he seized the property of another so plentiful and splendid with no right, and since the life of SR seems to stand in the way of and obstruct money,

deleatis exanimo suo suspicionem omnem metumque tollatis: sese hoc incoluminon arbitratur huius innocentis patrimonium tam amplum etcopiosum posse obtinere,

you should obliterate all suspicion from his mind and remove his fear: he does not think that he himself, while this man is unharmed, can hold on to the so great and rich inheritance of this innocent man.

damnato et eiecto sperat se posse, quodadeptus est per scelus, id per luxuriam effundere atque consumere.

he hopes that with him condemned and exiled, he can squander and waste through riotous living, which he obtained through wickedness.

hunc sibi ex animo scrupulum, qui se dies noctesque stimulat acpungit, ut evellatis, postulat, ut ad hanc suam praedam tam nefariamadiutores vos profiteamini.

this anxiety which vexes and stings him day and night, he demands that you eradicate from his mind, so that you may admit yourselves his accomplices to this very wicked plundering of his.