9/52 Erucius had declared of him that he never took part in any festivity. Cicero uses this to show that he was not likely to have been tempted by luxury to violence. Old Roscius had had two sons, of whom he had kept one with him in Rome--the one, probably, whose society had been dearest to him. He, however, had died, and our Roscius--Sextus Roscius Amerinus, as he came to be called when he was made famous by the murder--was left on one of the farms down in the country. The accusation would probably not have been made, had he not been known to be a man sullen, silent, rough, and unpopular--as to whom such a murder might be supposed to be credible. |