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After Sextus Roscius is slain, who is the first to
take the news to Ameria? Mallius Glaneia,
whom I have named before, your own client and intimate friend. What did it concern him
above all men to bring the news of what, if you had not previously formed some plan with
reference to his death and property, and had formed no conspiracy with any one else,
having either the crime or its reward for its object, concerned you least of all men?
Oh, Mallius brought the news of his own accord! What did it concern him, I beg? or, as
he did not come to Ameria on account of this
business, did it happen by chance that he was the first to tell the news which he had
heard at Rome? On what account did he come to
Ameria? I cannot conjecture, says he. I
will bring the matter to such a point that there shall be no need of conjecture. On what
account did he announce it first to Roscius Capito? When the house, and wife, and
children of Sextus Roscius were at Ameria;
when he had so many kinsmen and relations on the best possible terms with himself, on
what account did it happen that that client of yours, the reporter of your wickedness,
did it to Titus Roscius Capito above all men?
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