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Question 1

igitur

Answer 1

therefore

Question 2

quonam…pacto

Answer 2

how on earth (sarcastic)

Question 3

probari potest

Answer 3

can it be proved

Question 4

fecisse Clodium

Answer 4

that Clodius had laid

Question 5

insidias Miloni

Answer 5

an ambush for Milo

Question 6

satis est…quidem

Answer 6

on the one hand it is enough

Question 7

in…tam audaci

Answer 7

in the case of such an audacious

Question 8

illa…tam nefaria belua

Answer 8

such a wicked monster as that

Question 9

docere

Answer 9

to explain that

Question 10

ei…fuisse

Answer 10

he would have had

Question 11

magnam causam

Answer 11

a strong incentive

Question 12

magnam spem

Answer 12

great hope

Question 13

in Milonis morte propositam

Answer 13

apparent in Milo’s death

Question 14

magnas utilitates

Answer 14

(and) great advantages

Question 15

itaque illud Cassianum…valeat

Answer 15

let that favourite saying of Cassius’ prevail

Question 16

‘cui bono fuerit’

Answer 16

‘who stood to gain’

Question 17

in his personis

Answer 17

with regards to these characters

Question 18

etsi boni

Answer 18

even if good men

Question 19

nullo emolumento impelluntur

Answer 19

are not persuaded by any inducement at all

Question 20

in fraudem

Answer 20

to commit a crime

Question 21

improbi

Answer 21

wicked men

Question 22

saepe parvo

Answer 22

often (are) by a trivial (one)

Question 23

atqui

Answer 23

but

Question 24

Milone interfecto

Answer 24

with Milo killed

Question 25

Clodius haec adsequebatur

Answer 25

Clodius gaining these things

Question 26

non modo

Answer 26

not only

Question 27

praetor esset

Answer 27

that he would be praetor

Question 28

non eo consule

Answer 28

without having that man as consul

Question 29

quo sceleris facere nihil posset

Answer 29

under whom he could do nothing of a criminal nature

Question 30

sed etiam

Answer 30

but also

Question 31

ut praetor esset

Answer 31

that he would be praetor

Question 32

eis consulibus

Answer 32

with those men as consuls

Question 33

si non adiuvantibus

Answer 33

if they were not aiding

Question 34

at coniventibus certe

Answer 34

but certainly turning a blind eye

Question 35

quibus…speraret

Answer 35

under whom he hoped

Question 36

se…posse eludere

Answer 36

he could have the greatest possible enjoyment

Question 37

in…suis cogitatis furoribus

Answer 37

in his schemed wild acts

Question 38

illis

Answer 38

those we all know

Question 39

illi

Answer 39

that those men

Question 40

ut ipse ratiocinabatur

Answer 40

as he himself calculated

Question 41

nec cuperent reprimere

Answer 41

would not wish to check

Question 42

cuius conatus

Answer 42

his attempts

Question 43

si possent

Answer 43

(even) if they could

Question 44

cum arbitrarentur

Answer 44

when they considered

Question 45

tantum beneficium ei se debere

Answer 45

that they owed him such a favour

Question 46

et, si vellent

Answer 46

and if they did wish (to do so)

Question 47

fortasse vix possent

Answer 47

that perhaps they would scarcely be able

Question 48

frangere…

Answer 48

to break the audacity

Question 49

hominis sceleratissimi

Answer 49

of that most wicked man

Question 50

conroboratam iam

Answer 50

which had already been strengthened

Question 51

vetustate

Answer 51

by the passing of time