Mil. 13.1Quid?What? Mil. 13.1tū mē tibi īrātum, Sexte, putās, cuius tū inimīcissimum multō crūdēlius etiam pūnītus es, quam erat hūmānitātis meae postulāre?do you think I am angry with you, Sextus, when you punished my bitterest enemy far more cruelly even than my humanity could have demanded? Mil. 13.1Tū P. Clōdī cruentum cadāver ēiēcistī domō, tū in pūblicum abiēcistī, tū spoliātum imāginibus, exsequiīs, pompā, laudātiōne, īnfēlīcissimīs lignīs sēmiustilātum nocturnīs canibus dīlaniandum relīquistī.You threw the bloody corpse of Publius Clodius out of the house, you cast it into the street, you left it, stripped of ancestral masks, funeral rites, procession and eulogy, half burnt on ill-omened logs, to be torn apart by dogs in the night. Mil. 13.1Quā rē, etsī nefāriē fēcistī, tamen, quoniam in meō inimīcō crūdēlitātem exprōmpsistī tuam, laudāre nōn possum, īrāscī certē nōn dēbeō.Therefore, although you acted wickedly, still, since it was on my enemy that you displayed your cruelty, I cannot praise you, but I certainly ought not to be angry. Mil. 13.34Audīstis, iūdicēs, quantum Clōdī interfuerit occīdī Milōnem: convertite animōs nunc vicissim ad Milōnem.You have heard, judges, how much it mattered to Clodius that Milo should be killed: now turn your minds in turn to Milo.
Mil. 13.34Quid Milōnis intererat interficī Clōdium?What did it matter to Milo that Clodius should be killed? Mil. 13.34quid erat cūr Milō nōn dīcam admitteret, sed optāret?what reason was there why Milo should, I will not say commit it, but even wish for it? Mil. 13.34"Obstābat in spē cōnsulātūs Milōnī Clōdius."'Clodius stood in Milo's way in his hope of the consulship.' Mil. 13.34At eō repugnante fīēbat, immō vērō eō fīēbat magis, nec mē suffrāgātōre meliōre ūtēbātur quam Clōdiō.But he was being elected in spite of Clodius's opposition, or rather was being elected all the more because of it, nor did he find me a better canvasser than Clodius. Mil. 13.34Valēbat apud vōs, iūdicēs, Milōnis ergā mē remque pūblicam meritōrum memoria, valēbant precēs et lacrimae nostrae, quibus ego tum vōs mīrificē movērī sentiēbam, sed plūs multō valēbat perīculōrum impendentium timor.There weighed with you, judges, the memory of Milo's services to me and to the state; there weighed my prayers and tears, by which I felt then that you were wonderfully moved; but far more weighty was the fear of impending dangers.
Mil. 13.34Quis enim erat cīvium quī sibi solūtam P. Clōdī praetūram sine maximō rērum novārum metū prōpōneret?For which of the citizens could picture to himself the unbridled praetorship of Publius Clodius without the greatest fear of revolution? Mil. 13.34Solūtam autem fore vidēbātis, nisi esset is cōnsul quī eam audēret possetque cōnstringere.And you saw that it would be unbridled, unless there were a consul who would dare and be able to bind it fast. Mil. 13.34Eum Milōnem ūnum esse cum sentīret ūniversus populus Rōmānus, quis dubitāret suffrāgiō suō sē metū, perīculō rem pūblicam līberāre?Since the whole Roman people felt that Milo alone was that man, who would hesitate by his vote to free himself from fear and the state from danger? Mil. 13.34At nunc, Clōdiō remōtō, ūsitātīs iam rēbus ēnītendum est Milōnī ut tueātur dignitātem suam;But now, with Clodius removed, Milo must strive by ordinary means to maintain his standing; Mil. 13.34singulāris illa et huic ūnī concessa glōria quae cōtīdiē augēbātur frangendīs furōribus Clōdiānīs iam Clōdī morte cecidit.that unique glory, granted to him alone, which was growing daily through the crushing of Clodius's frenzies, has now fallen with the death of Clodius.
Mil. 13.34Vōs adeptī estis nē quem cīvem metuerētis;You have gained this: that you need fear no citizen; Mil. 13.34hic exercitātiōnem virtūtis, suffrāgātiōnem cōnsulātūs, fontem perennem glōriae suae perdidit.he has lost the exercise of his courage, the support for his consulship, the everlasting fountain of his glory. Mil. 13.34Itaque Milōnis cōnsulātus quī vīvō Clōdiō labefactārī nōn poterat mortuō dēnique temptārī coeptus est.And so Milo's consulship, which could not be shaken while Clodius lived, has at last begun to be assailed now that he is dead. Mil. 13.34Nōn modo igitur nihil prōdest sed obest etiam Clōdī mors Milōnī.So the death of Clodius not only does Milo no good, but actually harms him. Mil. 13.35"At valuit odium, fēcit īrātus, fēcit inimīcus, fuit ultor iniūriae, pūnītor dolōris suī."'But hatred prevailed, he acted in anger, he acted as an enemy, he was the avenger of a wrong, the punisher of his own grievance.' Mil. 13.35Quid?What? Mil. 13.35sī haec nōn dīcō maiōra fuērunt in Clōdiō quam in Milōne, sed in illō maxima, nūlla in hōc, quid voltis amplius?if these feelings, I will not say were greater in Clodius than in Milo, but were at their height in him and absent in Milo, what more do you want?
Mil. 13.35Quid enim ōdisset Clōdium Milō, segetem ac māteriam suae glōriae, praeter hoc cīvīle odium quō omnīs improbōs ōdimus?For why should Milo have hated Clodius, the harvest and material of his own glory, beyond that civic hatred with which we hate all the wicked? Mil. 13.35Illī erat ut ōdisset prīmum dēfēnsōrem salūtis meae, deinde vexātōrem furōris, domitōrem armōrum suōrum, postrēmō etiam accūsātōrem suum;Clodius had reason to hate him, first as the defender of my safety, then as the harrier of his madness and the tamer of his armed bands, and finally even as his own prosecutor; Mil. 13.35reus enim Milōnis lēge Plōtiā fuit Clōdius quoad vīxit.for Clodius was a defendant under the Plotian law, prosecuted by Milo, as long as he lived. Mil. 13.35Quō tandem animō hoc tyrannum illum tulisse crēditis?With what feelings, pray, do you believe that tyrant bore this? Mil. 13.35quantum odium illīus et in homine iniūstō quam etiam iūstum fuisse?how great was his hatred, and how justified even, in an unjust man?