Cael. 30.1Atque hōc etiam locō M. Camurtī et C. Caesernī damnātiō praedicātur.And at this point too the conviction of Marcus Camurtius and Gaius Caesernius is cited. Cael. 30.1Ō stultitiam!What folly! Cael. 30.1stultitiamne dīcam an impudentiam singulārem?should I call it folly, or extraordinary shamelessness? Cael. 30.1Audētisne, cum ab eā muliere veniātis, facere istōrum hominum mentiōnem?Do you dare, when you come from that woman, to make mention of those men? Cael. 30.1audētis excitāre tantī flāgitī memoriam, nōn exstīnctam illam quidem sed repressam vetustāte?do you dare to rouse the memory of so great an outrage, not extinguished, indeed, but suppressed by time? Cael. 30.1Quō enim illī crīmine peccātōque periērunt?For on what charge and for what offence were they ruined? Cael. 30.1Nempe quod eiusdem mulieris dolōrem et iniūriam Vettiānō nefāriō sunt stuprō persecūtī.Surely because they avenged that same woman's resentment and injury with the abominable Vettian outrage. Cael. 30.1Ergō ut audīrētur Vettī nōmen in causā, ut illa vetus aerāria fābula referrētur, idcircō Camurtī et Caesernī est causa renovāta?So was it in order that the name of Vettius might be heard in the case, that that old tale of the copper coin might be told again, that the case of Camurtius and Caesernius was revived?
Cael. 30.1quī quamquam lēge dē vī certē nōn tenēbantur, eō maleficiō tamen erant implicātī ut ex nūllīus lēgis laqueīs eximendī vidērentur.who, though they were certainly not liable under the law on violence, were nonetheless so entangled in that crime that they seemed fit to be freed from the snares of no law. Cael. 30.72M. vērō Caelius cūr in hoc iūdicium vocātur?But why is Marcus Caelius summoned to this trial? Cael. 30.72cui neque proprium quaestiōnis crīmen obicitur nec vērō aliquod eius modī quod sit ā lēge sēiūnctum, cum vestrā sevēritāte coniūnctum.against whom neither a charge proper to this court is brought, nor indeed any charge of the kind which is outside the law but within the reach of your strictness. Cael. 30.72Cuius prīma aetās disciplīnae dēdita fuit eīsque artibus quibus īnstruimur ad hunc ūsum forēnsem, ad capessendam rem pūblicam, ad honōrem, glōriam, dignitātem.His early years were devoted to training and to those arts by which we are equipped for this practice of the forum, for entering public life, for office, glory and standing. Cael. 30.72Eīs autem fuit amīcitiīs maiōrum nātū quōrum imitārī industriam continentiamque maximē vellet, eīs studiīs aequālium ut eundem quem optimī ac nōbilissimī petere cursum laudis vidērētur.He was on terms of friendship with older men whose industry and self-restraint he most wished to imitate, and with such pursuits among his contemporaries that he seemed to be seeking the same course of glory as the best and noblest.
Cael. 30.73Cum autem paulum iam rōboris accessisset aetātī, in Āfricam profectus est Q. Pompeiō prō cōnsule contubernālis, castissimō hominī atque omnis officī dīligentissimō;And when his age had now gained a little strength, he set out for Africa as a member of the staff of Quintus Pompeius, the proconsul, a most upright man and most scrupulous in every duty; Cael. 30.73in quā prōvinciā cum rēs erant et possessiōnēs paternae, tum etiam ūsus quīdam prōvinciālis nōn sine causā ā maiōribus huic aetātī tribūtus.in which province there were both his father's property and estates and also a certain provincial experience, granted not without reason by our ancestors to this age. Cael. 30.73Dēcessit illinc Pompeī iūdiciō probātissimus, ut ipsīus testimōniō cognōscētis.He left there with the highest approval in Pompeius' judgement, as you will learn from his own testimony. Cael. 30.73Voluit vetere īnstitūtō et eōrum adulēscentium exemplō quī post in cīvitāte summī virī et clārissimī cīvēs exstitērunt industriam suam ā populō Rōmānō ex aliquā inlūstrī accūsātiōne cognōscī.He wished, according to ancient custom and the example of those young men who afterwards became the greatest men and most illustrious citizens in the state, that his industry should be made known to the Roman people through some notable prosecution.