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Question 1

primum quaero qui

Answer 1

first I ask how

Question 2

id scire potuerit

Answer 2

he could have known it

Question 3

quod

Answer 3

a question which

Question 4

vos idem…non potestis

Answer 4

you cannot ask likewise

Question 5

in Clodio

Answer 5

in the case of Clodius

Question 6

ut enim…rogasset

Answer 6

for him only to have asked

Question 7

neminem alium

Answer 7

no one else

Question 8

nisi…familiarissimum suum, Titum Patinam

Answer 8

except his own closest friend, Titus Patina

Question 9

scire potuit illo

Answer 9

he could have ascertained from him

Question 10

ipso die…necesse esse

Answer 10

that on that very day it was necessary

Question 11

prodi flaminem

Answer 11

for a priest to be appointed

Question 12

Lanuvi a dictatore Milone

Answer 12

by Milo, the chief-magistrate of Lanuvium

Question 13

sed erant permulti alii

Answer 13

but there were very many other people

Question 14

ex quibus…posset

Answer 14

from whom he could

Question 15

id facillime scire

Answer 15

very easily have learned that

Question 16

scilicet

Answer 16

evidently

Question 17

omnes…Lanuvini

Answer 17

all the people of Lanuvium

Question 18

Milo…unde quaesivit

Answer 18

from whom could Milo have enquired

Question 19

de Clodi reditu

Answer 19

about Clodius’ return

Question 20

quaesierit sane…servum

Answer 20

indeed let him have asked…his slave

Question 21

videte quid vobis largiar

Answer 21

see what I am granting to you

Question 22

ut Quintus Arrius, amicus meus, dixit

Answer 22

as Quintus Arrius, my friend [possibly sarcastic or conventional], has said

Question 23

etiam…corruperit

Answer 23

let him even have bribed him

Question 24

legite testimonia

Answer 24

read the testimonies

Question 25

testium vestrorum

Answer 25

of your own witnesses

Question 26

Gaius Causinius Schola, Interamnanus

Answer 26

Gaius Causinius Schola of Interamna

Question 27

familiarissimus et idem comes Clodi

Answer 27

a very close friend and also a companion of Clodius

Question 28

dixit…Publium Clodium…mansurum fuisse

Answer 28

had said that Publius Clodius would have stayed

Question 29

illo die

Answer 29

on that day

Question 30

in Albano

Answer 30

at his Alban estate

Question 31

sed subito

Answer 31

but suddenly

Question 32

ei esse nuntiatum

Answer 32

it was reported to him

Question 33

Cyrum architectum esse mortuum

Answer 33

that his architect Cyrus was dead

Question 34

itaque…constituisse proficisci

Answer 34

and so he had decided to set out

Question 35

repente Romam

Answer 35

for Rome immediately

Question 36

item comes Publi Clodi, Gaius Clodius

Answer 36

Gaius Clodius, likewise a companion of Publius Clodius

Question 37

dixit hoc

Answer 37

has said this too