accedit, there is in addition: used as a kind of passive of addo. illa, this, i.e. the following (a common use of this pronoun). quod, that: § 572(333); B. 299,1,b; G. 525, 1; H.588,3 (540, iv); H.-B. 549,550, 552, 1. a ceteris,from the others, i.e. the nobles. petitum sit: for subjunctive see § 447, a and N. (334,g and N.) ; G. 457, 2, N.; H. (p.267, footnote 1); H.-B. 517,1. ut dicerent [causam], subst. clause of purpose, subj. of petitum sit: § 566 (331, h) ; G. 546; H.565, 2 (499, 3); cf. H.-B. 502, 3, a. dicere causam is the technical expression for defending a case. ut . . . arbitrarentur: a clause of result, dependent on ita petitum sit: § 537 and N.2 (319 and a.) ; B. 284, 1; G. 552; H. 591 (500 and N.1); H.-B. 521, 2 and a. utrumvis, either [course, i.e. to speak or be silent], at their choice ; lit. either [of the two] you please. salvo officio (abl. of manner), without a breach of duty. arbitrarentur: imperf. following petitum sit, which is regarded as a secondary tense since it represents the perf. indic. ; § 485, a (287, a) ; B. 268, I; G. 511, N.2; H.546 (495, i); H.-B. 481. a me autem, etc., lit. but from me, etc. (opposed to a ceteris above). The emphasis may be preserved by changing the construction in English: but as for myself, men have urged it [i.e. that I should undertake the defence of Roscius] on me who, etc. ei, men ; here used simply as a correlative to qui, and not in a really demonstrative sense. The reference is of course to the noble friends of Roscius debeam, subj. of characteristic: § 535(320); B. 283,1; G. 631, 2; H. 591, I (503, i); H.-B. 521, 1. his, emphatic, summing up the reasons he has given for undertaking the case, ego (next line), emphatic as opposed to the others present. patronus, advocate, the word advocati having a different meaning (see note on p. 2, l. 7, above). unus, as the one man. uti ne: in purpose clauses the double form is often used instead of ne alone. desertus, etc.: observe that Cicero not only attempts to win the sympathies of the jurors for the helpIessness of his client, but that he also contrives to suggest, in advance of the formal statement of facts, that there is a combination or conspiracy of some kind against young Roscius The same thing was insinuated in sect. vi by the use of conflatam (1.6).
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