Chapter 56 Flashcards
Reliquum est igitur crimen de veneno; cuius ego nec principium invenire neque evolvere exitum possum.
There remains, then, the charge of poison; of this, I can neither find a beginning nor unravel the end.
quae fuit enim causa quam ob rem isti mulieri venenum dare vellet Caelius?
For what reason was there why Caelius would wish to give poison to a woman of that kind?
ne aurum redderet? num petivit?
To avoid giving back the poison? She didn’t ask for it, did she?
ne crimen haereret? numquid obiecit?
To prevent the accusation sticking to him? Did anyone make it, then?
numquis denique fecisset mentionem, si hic nullius nimen detulisset?
To sum up, would anyone have made any mention [of it], had he not brought a prosecution against anyone?
quin etiam L. Herennium dicere audistis verbo se molestum non futurum fuisse Caelio,
Indeed, furthermore, you heard Lucius Herennius say that he would not have troubled Caelius with a single word,
nisi iterum eadem de re suo familiari absoluto nomen hic detulisset.
if he had nit for a second time accused his relative about the same matter although he had been aquitted.
credibile est igitur tantum facinus ob nullam causam esse commissum?
Is it credible, therefore, that such a great crime was committed for no reason?
et vos non videtis fingi sceleris maximi crimen ut alterius sceleris suscipiendi fuisse causa videatur?
Do you also not see that an accusation of the most serious crime is being made up so that there might seem to have been a motive for committing a second?
