Section 50

Question 1

Obliviscor iam iniuras tuas, Clodia, depono memoriam doloris mei;

Answer 1

[For] now, I am forgetting your wrongs Clodia, I am laying aside the memory of my pain;

Question 2

quae abs te crudeliter in meos me absente facta sunt neglego; ne sint haec in te dicta, quae dixi.

Answer 2

I disregard the things which were cruelly done by you against my family in my absense; let not these things which I said be [regarded] as said against you.

Question 3

Sed ex te ipsa requiro, quoniam et crimen accusatores abs te et testem eius criminis te ipsam dicunt se habere:

Answer 3

But I ask of you yourself, since the prosecutors say that they have both the accusation from you and that they have you yourself as a witness of that accusation:

Question 4

si quae mulier sit eius modi qualem ego paulo ante descripsi, tui dissimilis,

Answer 4

if there may be a woman of such a kind, the sort of person whom I described a little before, unlike you,

Question 5

vita institutoque meretricio, cum hac aliquid adulescentem hominem habuisse rationis num tibi perturpe aut perflagitiosum esse videatur?

Answer 5

with the life and manner of a courtesan, surely it would not seem very disgraceful or very scandalous to you for a young man to have had some sort of relationship with this woman?

Question 6

Ea si tu non es, sicut ego malo, quid est, quod obiciant Caelio?

Answer 6

If you are not that type of woman, just as I prefer [to think], what is it, which they accuse Caelius of?

Question 7

Sin eam te volunt esse, quid est, cur nos crimen hoc, si tu contemnis, pertimescamus?

Answer 7

But if they want you to be her [that sort of woman], is there any reason why we should greatly fear this charge, if you despise it?

Question 8

Quare nobis da viam rationemque defensionis.

Answer 8

Therefore give to us a way and method of defense.

Question 9

Aut enim pudor tuus defendet nihil a M. Caelio petulantius esse factum,

Answer 9

For either your sense of shame will say in defense/ [will be a defense for us] that nothing has been done too impudently by M. Caelius,

Question 10

aut impudentia et huic et ceteris magnam ad se defendendum facultatem dabit.

Answer 10

or your recklessness/shamelessness will grant both to him and to everyone else a great opportunity for defending themselves.