As Roscius could have executed a release
 to Flavius in his own name, so as to prevent you from preferring any claim; so, as he
 only exacted his own share, and left you your right to prefer a claim unimpaired, he
 ought not to share what he got with you—unless, indeed, you, by a perversion
 of all justice, are able to rob him of what is his, though you are not able to extort
 your own rights from another. Saturius persists in his opinion, that whatever a partner
 claims for himself becomes the property of the partnership. But if that be true, how
 great (plague take it!) was the folly of Roscius, who, by the advice and influence of
 lawyers, made a mutual agreement with Fannius, very carefully, that he should pay him
 half of whatever he got from Flavius; if indeed, without any security or mutual
 agreement, nevertheless, Fannius owed it to the partnership; that is to say, to Roscius 
 [The rest of this speech is lost.]