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It remains, O judges, that we must now consider which of the
two rather killed Sextus Roscius; did he to whom riches accrued by his death, or did he
to whom beggary was the result? Did he who, before that, was poor, or he, who after that
became most indigent? Did he, who burning with avarice rushes in like an enemy against
his own relations, or he who has always lived in such a manner as to have no
acquaintance with exorbitant gains, or with any profit beyond that which he procured
with toil? Did he who, of all the brokers 1 is the most audacious, or he who, because of the
insolence of the forum and of the public courts, dreads not only the bench, but even the
city itself? Lastly, O judges, what is most material of all to the argument in my
opinion did his enemy do it or his son?
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