In Verrem 2.4.8-9

Question 1

Sed quid ego tam vehementer invehor?

Answer 1

But why am I carried away so passionately?

Question 2

verbo uno repellar.

Answer 2

I shall be brought back by one word.

Question 3

‘Emi,’ inquit.

Answer 3

“I bought it,” he says.

Question 4

Di immortales, praeclaram defensionem!

Answer 4

Immortal gods, what a brilliant defense!

Question 5

Mercatorem in provinciam cum imperio ac securibus misimus,

Answer 5

We sent a merchant into the province with power and authority,

Question 6

omnia qui signa, tabulas pictas, omne argentum, aurum, ebur, gemmas coemeret,

Answer 6

to buy all the statues, all the paintings, all the silver, gold, ivory, and jewels,

Question 7

nihil cuiquam relinqueret!

Answer 7

and to leave behind nothing for anyone.

Question 8

Haec enim mihi ad omnia defensio patefieri videtur, emisse.

Answer 8

For this defense seems to me to be ready for everything; that he bought it.

Question 9

Primum, si id quod vis tibi ego concedam, ut emeris,

Answer 9

First, if I should grant to you that which you wish, that you bought them

Question 10

—quoniam in toto hoc genere hac una defensione usurus es,—

Answer 10

– since/because you are about to use this one defense in this whole group of charges –

Question 11

quaero cuius modi tu iudicia Romae putaris esse,

Answer 11

I ask of what kind did you think the judges of Rome were,

Question 12

si tibi hoc quemquam concessurum putasti,

Answer 12

if you thought that anyone would grant to you this,

Question 13

te in praetura atque imperio tot res tam pretiosas, [coemisse]

Answer 13

which you bought in governorship and power, so many things so precious

Question 14

omnis denique res quae alicuius preti fuerint,

Answer 14

in fact everything which was of any value from the whole province

Question 15

Videte maiorum diligentiam,

Answer 15

Consider the care of our ancestors,

Question 16

qui nihildum etiam istius modi suspicabantur,

Answer 16

who were suspecting nothing as of yet even of this kind,

Question 17

verum tamen ea quae parvis in rebus accidere poterant providebant.

Answer 17

but however they were foreseeing those things which were able to happen in small matters.

Question 18

Neminem qui cum potestate aut legatione in provinciam esset profectus tam amentem fore putaverunt

Answer 18

They thought that no one, who had set out with power or an embassy into the province, so insane

Question 19

ut emeret argentum, dabatur enim de publico;

Answer 19

as to buy silver, for it was given at the public expense;

Question 20

ut vestem, praebebatur enim legibus;

Answer 20

or clothing, for it was supplied by the laws;

Question 21

mancipium putarunt, quo et omnes utimur et non praebetur a populo: [emeret]

Answer 21

they thought that he might buy a slave, who both we all use and is not supplied by the people:

Question 22

sanxerunt ne quis emeret nisi in demortui locum.

Answer 22

they forbade anyone by law to buy (a slave) except in the place of a dead slave.

Question 23

Si qui Romae esset demortuus?

Answer 23

If any (slave) had died in Rome?

Question 24

Immo, si quis ibidem;

Answer 24

No, if anyone had died in the same place as the governor (their master).

Question 25

non enim te instruere domum tuam voluerunt in provincia,

Answer 25

for they did not want you to furnish your house in the province,

Question 26

sed illum usum provinciae supplere.

Answer 26

but to be of that use to the province.