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For they say it is written in it, “that the property of
those men who have been proscribed is to be sold”; in which number Sextus
Roscius is not one: “or of those who have been slain in the garrisons of the
opposite party.” While there, were any garrisons, he was in the garrisons of
Sulla; after they laid down their arms, returning from supper, he was slain at
Rome in a time of perfect peace. If he was
slain by law, I admit that his property was sold by law too; but if it is evident that
he was slain contrary to all laws, not merely to old laws, but to the new ones also,
then I ask by what right, or in what manner, or by what law they were sold?
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