Cicero - part 20

Quadriduo quo haec gesta sunt

Within 4 days of the time when these things were achieved

Res ad Chrysogonum in castra L. Sullae Volaterras defertur

The matter was reported to Chrysogonus in the camp of Lucius Sulla at Volaterra

Magnitudo pecuniae demonstratur

The large amount of money was made clear

Bonitas praediorum - nam fundos decem et tres reliquit

The richness of the estates - for he left behind 13 farms

Qui Tiberim fere omnes tangunt

Which almost all border the Tiber

Huius inopia et solitudo commemoratur

The helplessness and isolation of this were being mentioned

Demonstrant cum pater huiusce Sex. Roscius

They pointed out that when the father of this man Sextus Roscius (elder)

Homo tam splendidus et gratiosus

A man so illustrious and influential

Nullo negotio sit occisus

Was killed with no difficulty

Perfacile hunc hominem incautum

This man, naive and of the country

Et rusticum et Romae ignotum de medio tolli posse

And unknown in Rome could be removed very easily from public view

Ad eam rem operam suam pollicentur

They promised their services for that purpose