64A Flashcards
A.d. xiii Kal. Febr. Milo Lanuvium, ex quo erat municipio et ubi tum dicator, profectus est ad flaminem prodendum postera die.
On the eighteenth of January Milo set out towards Lanuvium, from which town he was then magistrate, to appoint a priest the following day.
Occurrit ei circa horam nonam Clodius paulo ultra Bovillas, rediens ab Aricia; erat autem allocutus decuriones Aricinorum.
Clodius mets him around the ninth hour a little beyond Bovillae, returning from Aricia; for, he had addressed the councelmen of Aricia.
Vehebatur Clodius equo; servi triginta fere expediti, ut illo tempore mos erat iter facientibus, gladiis cincti sequebantur.
Clodius was being carried by horse; almost thirty unhampered slaves, armed with swords, as was the custom at that time for those making a journey.
Erant cum Clodio praeterea tres comites eius, ex quibus eques Romanus unus, duo de plebe noti homines.
There were with Clodius in addition to those things his three companions, on of whom was a Roman knight, two well known men from the Plebean class.
Milo raeda vehebatur cum uxore Fausta, filia L. Sullae dictoris, et M. Fufio familiari suo.
Milo was carried by carriage with his wife Fausta, the daughter of Lucius Sulla the dictator, and Marcus Fufius his close friend.
Sequebatur eos magnum servorum agmen, inter quos gladiatores quoque erant, ex quibus duo noti, Eudamus et Birria.
A great line of slaves followed them, among whom were also gladiators, two of whom were well known, Eudamus and Birria.
Ei in ultimo agmine tardius euntes cum servis P. Clodii rixam commiserunt.
They going more slowly in the back of the line, started a skirmish with the slaves of Clodius.
