Cicero - page 4

Iudices, ego (contra) brevem postulationem adfero et, quo modo mihi persuadeo

Judges, I by contrast put forward a demand that is brief and

Quo modo mihi persuadeo, aliquanto aequiorem

And I am convinced considerably fairer

Primum a Chrysogono peto

First I ask from Chrysogonus

Ut pecunia fortunisque nostris contentus sit

That he be satisfied with our wealth and property

Sanguinem et vitam ne petat

And that he not seek our life-blood

Deinde a vobis iudices, ut audacium sceleri resistatis

Then I ask from you, judges, that you stand out against the crime of bold men

Innocentium calamitatem levetis et in causa Sex. Rosci periculum quod in omnis intenditur propulsetis

That you lessen the misfortune of innocent men and in the case of Sextus Roscius that you fend off the danger, which is being threatened against everyone

Quod si aut causa criminis aut facti

But if either a reason for the criminal charge