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suspiciosum, merely a matter of conjecture, as opposed to perspicuum : cf. Auct. ad Her. 2. § 11, cum multa concurrant argumenta et signa quae inter se consentiant, rem perspicuam, non suspiciosam videri oportere. non enim ita disputabo, in antithesis with certo scio below. Cicero says, I will not argue for the probability that Chrysogonus got his information from the two Roscii, for it is a known fact ; they admit it themselves. erat enim, etc., and nam cum, etc., hint two reasons which might be given for the probability, but are let pass ; an instance of the figure praeteritio or occupatio ; cf. Auct. ad Her. 4. § 37. Note that nam cum, etc., is not a reason for erat antea amicitia, but a second reason for verisimile est Roscios detulisse, etc. cum multos veteres . . . though the Roscii had many patrons and guest-friends through ties long since inherited from their ancestors ... The ties of patrocinium and hospitium were hereditary.
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