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ex Appennino deduxerat
he had led down from the Apennines
servos agrestes et barbaros
the rustic and barbarous slaves
quibus…depopulatus erat
with whom he had devastated
silvas publicas
the public forests
Etruriamque vexarat
and had annoyed Etruria
quos videbatis
and you saw them
res erat minime obscura
this event was not at all concealed
etenim
in truth
dictitabat palam
he used to keep on saying openly
consulatum
that the consulship
eripi non posse
could not be torn away
Miloni
from Milo
vitam posse
(but) his life could
significavit hoc saepe in senatu
he hinted this often in the senate
dixit in contione
he said it in the public assembly
quin etiam
in actual fact
Marco Favonio…quaerenti ex eo
when Marcus Favonius…asked him
fortissimo viro
a very brave man (M. Favonius)
qua spe fureret
what he was hoping for behaving wildly
Milone vivo
while Milo lived
respondit illum
he replied that that man
triduo…aut summum quadriduo
in three days or at most four
esse periturum
would be dead
detulit…statim Favonius
Favonius immediately reported
quam vocem eius
this claim of his
ad hunc Marcum Catonem
to this man, Marcus Cato