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What are you
doing? Why do you refuse? Doubt now, O judges, if you can, by whom Sextus Roscius was
murdered; whether by him, who, on account of his death, is exposed to poverty and
treachery, who has not even opportunity allowed him of making inquiry into his father's
death; or by those who shun investigation, who are in possession of his property, who
live amid murder, and by murder. Everything in this cause, O judges, is lamentable and
scandalous; but there is nothing which can be mentioned more bitter or more iniquitous
than this. The son is not allowed to put his father's slaves to the question concerning
his father's death. He is not to be master of his own slaves so long as to put them to
the question concerning his father's death. I will come again, and that speedily, to
this topic. For all this relates to the Roscii; and I have promised that I will speak of
their audacity when I have effaced the accusations of Erucius.
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