64C Flashcards
Perlatum est corpus Clodii ante primam noctis horam, infimaeque plebis et servorum maxima multitudo magno luctu corpus in atrio domus positum circumstetit.
The body of Clodius was brought in before the first hour of the night, and a very large crowd of the lowest plebeans and slaves surrounded the body having been placed in the atrium of the house with great mourning.
Augebat autem facti invidiam uxor Clodii Fulvia, quae cum effusa lamentatione vulnera eius ostendebat.
Moreover, Fulvia, the wife of Clodius, who showed his wounds with unrestrained weeping, increased the anger at that deed.
Maior postera die luce prima multitudo eiusdem generis confluxit, compluresque noti homines visi sunt.
On the following day at dawn a larger crowd of the same type came together, and several well known men were seen.
Eisque hortantibus vulgus imperitum corpus nudum as calcatum, sicut in lecto erat poitum, ut vulnera videri possent in Forum detulit et in rostris posuit.
With them urging, the ignorant mob brought down the naked and trample corpse into the forum and placed it on the rostra so that the wounds were able to be seen just as it had been placed in the couch.
Ibi pro contione Plancus et Pompeius, qui competitoribus Milonis studebant, invidiam Miloni fecerunt.
There in front of the assembly Plancus and Pompieus, who supported the political rivals of Milo, created hatred for Milo.
Populus, duce Sex. Clodio scriba, corpus P. Clodii in Curiam intulit cremavitque subselliis et tribunalibus et mensis et codicibus librariorum, quo igne et ipsa quoque Curia flagravit, et item Porcia Basilica, quae erat ei iuncta, ambusta est.
The people, with the scribe Sextus Clodius as leader, brought the body of Publius Clodius into the Curia and set it on fire by means of the benches and platforms and tables and secretaries ledgers, by which fire both the Curia itself, and in the same way the bastilica which had been joined to it, burned.
