1See, judges, how much has been settled by this evidence. 1First, Milo is certainly cleared of having set out with the intention of ambushing Clodius on the road: naturally, if Clodius was not going to meet him at all. 1Next — for I do not see why I should not plead my own case too — you know, judges, that there were those who, in urging this bill, said that the killing had been done by Milo's hand but by the plan of someone greater. 1It was I, of course, whom those abject and desperate men described as the brigand and assassin. 1They are struck down by their own witnesses, those who say that Clodius would not have returned to Rome that day had he not heard about Cyrus.
1I breathe again, I am cleared; 1I do not fear that I may seem to have planned what I could not even have suspected. 48Now I shall pursue the rest; 48for this objection occurs: 'So Clodius did not plan an ambush either, since he was going to stay at his Alban villa.' 48True — if he had not been about to leave the villa to commit murder. 48For I see that the man who is said to have brought news of Cyrus' death brought not that news, but news that Milo was approaching. 48For what news would he bring about Cyrus, whom Clodius had left dying when he set out from Rome?
48I put my seal to the will along with him; I was there with him; 48and he had made his will openly, and had written down Clodius and me as heirs. 48Was the news only being brought to him at the tenth hour on the following day that the man whom he had left breathing his last at the third hour the day before was dead?