1How, then, did the day not escape him? 1I told you just now. 1To know the fixed sacrifices of the dictator of Lanuvium was no trouble at all. 1He saw that Milo had to set out for Lanuvium on the very day on which he did set out: and so he got in first. 1But on what day? 1On the day on which, as I said before, a most frenzied public meeting was stirred up by his own hired tribune of the plebs: a day, a meeting, an uproar which he would never have left unless he were hurrying to a premeditated crime. 1So he had not even a reason for the journey, and had besides a reason for staying; 1Milo had no possibility of staying, and not only a reason but even a necessity for leaving.
1What if, just as he knew that Milo would be on the road that day, so Milo could not even suspect the same of Clodius? 46First I ask how he could have known it? 46a question you cannot likewise ask in the case of Clodius. 46For even if he had asked no one but Titus Patina, his closest friend, he could have known that on that very day a flamen had to be nominated at Lanuvium by Milo as dictator. 46But there were very many others from whom he could most easily have learnt it: all the people of Lanuvium, of course. 46From whom did Milo inquire about Clodius' return?
46Suppose he did inquire — see what I am conceding to you — suppose he even bribed a slave, as my friend Quintus Arrius said. 46Read the evidence of your own witnesses. 46Gaius Causinius Schola of Interamna, a very close friend and also a companion of Clodius, said that Publius Clodius had intended to stay that day at his Alban villa, but that it was suddenly announced to him that Cyrus the architect had died, and so he had suddenly decided to set out for Rome. 46Gaius Clodius, a companion of Publius Clodius, said the same.