Cael. 12.1Equidem multōs et vīdī in hāc cīvitāte et audīvī, nōn modo quī prīmōribus labrīs gustāssent genus hoc vītae et extrēmīs, ut dīcitur, digitīs attigissent sed quī tōtam adulēscentiam voluptātibus dēdidissent, ēmersisse aliquandō et sē ad frūgem bonam, ut dīcitur, recēpisse gravīsque hominēs atque inlūstrīs fuisse.I for my part have both seen and heard of many men in this city — not only those who had tasted this kind of life with the tips of their lips and touched it, as the saying is, with their fingertips, but those who had given their whole youth over to pleasures — who at length emerged and, as the saying is, returned to good ways, and became serious and distinguished men. Cael. 12.1Datur enim concessū omnium huic aliquī lūdus aetātī, et ipsa nātūra profundit adulēscentiae cupiditātēs.For by universal consent some play is allowed to this age, and nature herself pours forth the desires of youth. Cael. 12.1Quae sī ita ērumpunt ut nūllīus vītam labefactent, nūllīus domum ēvertant, facilēs et tolerābilēs habērī solent.If these break out in such a way as to undermine no one's life and overturn no one's household, they are usually regarded as easy and tolerable.
Cael. 12.29Sed tū mihi vidēbāre ex commūnī īnfāmiā iuventūtis aliquam invidiam Caeliō velle cōnflāre.But you seemed to me to want to stir up some ill will against Caelius out of the general bad reputation of the young. Cael. 12.29Itaque omne illud silentium quod est ōrātiōnī tribūtum tuae fuit ob eam causam quod ūnō reō prōpositō dē multōrum vitiīs cōgitābāmus.And so all that silence which was granted to your speech arose for this reason, that while a single defendant was set before us, we were thinking about the vices of many. Cael. 12.29Facile est accūsāre luxuriem.It is easy to accuse luxury. Cael. 12.29Diēs iam mē dēficiat, sī quae dīcī in eam sententiam possunt cōner exprōmere;The day would fail me now if I tried to set out everything that can be said to that effect; Cael. 12.29dē corruptēlīs, dē adulteriīs, dē protervitāte, dē sūmptibus immēnsa ōrātiō est.on seduction, on adultery, on wantonness, on extravagance the speech is boundless. Cael. 12.29Vt tibi reum nēminem sed vitia ista prōpōnās, rēs tamen ipsa et cōpiōsē et graviter accūsārī potest.Even if you set before yourself no defendant but only those vices, the subject itself can still be accused fully and weightily.
Cael. 12.29Sed vestrae sapientiae, iūdicēs, est nōn abdūcī ab reō nec, quōs aculeōs habeat sevēritās gravitāsque vestra, cum eōs accūsātor ērēxerit in rem, in vitia, in mōrēs, in tempora, ēmittere in hominem et in reum, cum is nōn suō crīmine sed multōrum vitiō sit in quoddam odium iniūstum vocātus.But it is for your wisdom, gentlemen, not to be led away from the defendant, and, when the prosecutor has pointed whatever stings your severity and gravity possess at the subject, at vices, at morals, at the times, not to launch them at the man and the defendant, when he has been brought into a kind of unjust hatred not by any crime of his own but by the vice of many. Cael. 12.30Itaque ego sevēritātī tuae ita ut oportet respondēre nōn audeō.And so I do not venture to answer your severity as I ought. Cael. 12.30Erat enim meum dēprecārī vacātiōnem adulēscentiae veniamque petere.For it was my part to plead for the exemption of youth and to ask for indulgence. Cael. 12.30Nōn, inquam, audeō;I do not, I say, venture to; Cael. 12.30perfugiīs nihil ūtor aetātis, concessa omnibus iūra dīmittō;I make no use of the refuges of youth, I give up the rights granted to all; Cael. 12.30tantum petō ut, sī qua est invidia commūnis hōc tempore aeris aliēnī, petulantiae, libīdinum iuventūtis, quam videō esse magnam, tamen nē huic aliēna peccāta, nē aetātis ac temporum vitia noceant.I ask only this: that if there is at this time a general ill feeling about debt, insolence and the lusts of youth, which I see is great, nonetheless others' sins, the vices of his age and of the times, may not harm this man.
Cael. 12.30Atque ego īdem quī haec postulō quīn crīminibus quae in hunc propriē cōnferuntur dīligentissimē respondeam nōn recūsō.And I, the same man who demands this, do not refuse to answer most carefully the charges which are brought against him in particular.