1And so I readily accept that that part of the case has been argued out weightily and eloquently by Marcus Crassus — about the riots at Naples, about the assault on the Alexandrians at Puteoli, about the property of Palla. 1I could wish he had also spoken about Dio. 1Yet about that very matter, what is there for you to expect? 1The man who did the deed either has no fear or even confesses it; 1for he is a king; 1and the man who was said to have been his helper and accomplice, Publius Asicius, has been acquitted in court. 1Is a charge of such a kind, then, that the man who committed it does not deny it and the man who denied it has been acquitted, to be dreaded by this man, who was free not only from suspicion of the deed but even from suspicion of knowing of it?
1And if his case did Asicius more good than ill will did him harm, will your abuse harm this man, who has been tainted not only by no suspicion of that deed but not even by rumour? 24But, you say, Asicius was acquitted through collusion. 24It is very easy to answer that point, especially for me, by whom that case was defended. 24But Caelius thinks that Asicius' case is excellent; 24whatever it may be, however, he thinks it is separate from his own. 24And not only Caelius thinks so, but also those most cultivated and learned young men, endowed with the soundest pursuits and the finest accomplishments, Titus and Gaius Coponius, who more than anyone grieved at the death of Dio, and who were bound to him both by a devotion to learning and culture and also by ties of hospitality.
24Dio was staying, as you have heard, with Titus, and had become known to him at Alexandria. 24What either he or his brother, a man of the greatest distinction, thinks of Marcus Caelius, you will hear from themselves, if they are brought forward. 25So let these matters be set aside, so that at last we may come to the points on which the case rests.