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Question 1

Interim cum sciret Clodius

Answer 1

Meanwhile since Clodius knew

Question 2

(neque enim erat difficile scire)

Answer 2

and indeed it was not difficult to know

Question 3

iter sollemne, legitimum, necessarium ante diem tredecimum Kalendas Februarias Miloni esse Lanuvium ad flaminem prodendum,

Answer 3

that Milo had a standard, proper, necessary journey to Lavuvium to appoint a priest on the eighteenth of January

Question 4

quot erat dictator Lanuvii Milo

Answer 4

because Milo was the mayor of Lanuvium

Question 5

Roma subito ipse profectus pridie est

Answer 5

he himself set out from Rome on the day before

Question 6

ut ante suum fundum (quot re intellectum est) Miloni insidias collocaret;

Answer 6

so that he might set up an ambush for Milo in front of his own farm (which was understood from the situation)

Question 7

atque ita profectus est ut contionem turbulenta, in qua, eius, furor desideratus est , quae illo ipso die habita est, relinqueret

Answer 7

and he set out in this way that he left behind a rowdy meeting in which his rage was missed, which was being held on that very day

Question 8

quam, nisi obire facinoris locum tempusque voluisset, numquam reliquisset

Answer 8

which he never would have left if he had not wanted to go to the place and time of the crime