His name had been down on no proscription list, for he had been a friend of Sulla's friends.

He was supposed, when he was murdered, to be worth about six million of sesterces, or something between fifty and sixty thousand pounds of our money.

Though there was at that time much money in Rome, this amounted to wealth; and though we cannot say who murdered the man, we may feel sure that he was murdered for his money.
Immediately on his death his chattels were seized and sold--or divided, probably, without being sold--including his slaves, in whom, as with every rich Roman, much of his wealth was invested; and his landed estates--his farms, of which he had many--were also divided.

As to the actual way in which this was done, we are left much in the dark.

Had the name of Sextus Roscius been on one of the lists, even though the list would then have been out of date, we could have understood that it should have been so.