section 91

Question 1

Tua illa pulchra laudatio, tua miseratio, tua cohortatio; tu, tu, inquam, illas faces incendisti,

Answer 1

That beautiful eulogy of yours, your passion, your incitement; you, you, I say, you set alight those torches,

Question 2

et eas, quibus semustulatus ille est, et eas, quibus incensa L. Bellieni domus deflagravit;

Answer 2

those with which that man was half burned, and those with which the set-alight home of Bellieni burnt down.

Question 3

tu illos impetus perditorum hominum et ex maxima parte servorum, quos nos vi manuque reppulimus, in nostras domos inmisisti.

Answer 3

You sent those attacks of reckless men, to a large extent slaves, against our houses, whom we with force and hand drove back.

Question 4

Idem tamen quasi fuligine abstersa reliquis diebus in Capitolio praeclara senatus consulta fecisti,

Answer 4

However, as if you had wiped away the soot, in the following days in the Capitol you made a splendid decree of the senate,

Question 5

ne qua post Idus Martias immunitatis tabula neve cuius benefici figeretur.

Answer 5

so that after the Ides of March no notice of tax immunity or favour should be posted.

Question 6

Meministi ipse, de exulibus, scis, de immunitate quid dixeris.

Answer 6

You remember yourself what you said about the exiles, you know what you said about the immunity.

Question 7

Optimum vero, quod dictaturae nomen in perpetuum de re publica sustulisti;

Answer 7

Excellent, indeed, you removed the name of everlasting dictator from the republic:

Question 8

quo quidem facto tantum te cepisse odium regni videbatur, ut eius omen omne propter proximum dictatoris metum tolleres.

Answer 8

indeed it seemed you took such great hatred of a kingdom, that you removed all fear of this on account of the last dictator.