Mil. 21.1Age nunc iter expedītī latrōnis cum Milōnis impedīmentīs comparāte.Come now, compare the journey of the unencumbered brigand with Milo's encumbrances. Mil. 21.1Semper ille anteā cum uxōre, tum sine eā;Always before, Clodius travelled with his wife; this time without her; Mil. 21.1numquam nisi in raedā, tum in equō;never except in a carriage; this time on horseback; Mil. 21.1comitēs Graeculī, quōcumque ībat, etiam cum in castra Etrūsca properābat, tum nūgārum in comitātū nihil.Greek hangers-on wherever he went, even when he was hurrying to the camp in Etruria; this time no frivolities in his retinue. Mil. 21.1Milō quī numquam, tum cāsū puerōs symphōniacōs uxōris dūcēbat et ancillārum gregēs;Milo, who never did so, this time by chance was taking his wife's boy musicians and troops of maidservants; Mil. 21.1ille quī semper sēcum scorta, semper exolētōs, semper lupās dūceret, tum nēminem, nisi ut virum ā virō lēctum esse dīcerēs.Clodius, who always took harlots with him, always catamites, always whores, this time took no one but men of whom you would say each had been picked, man by man. Mil. 21.1Cūr igitur victus est?Why, then, was he beaten? Mil. 21.1Quia nōn semper viātor ā latrōne, nōn numquam etiam latrō ā viātōre occīditur;Because the traveller is not always killed by the brigand; sometimes the brigand is killed by the traveller; Mil. 21.1quia, quamquam parātus in imparātōs Clōdius, ipse Clōdius tamen mulier inciderat in virōs.because, although Clodius was prepared and fell upon men unprepared, still Clodius, a woman, had fallen upon men.
Mil. 21.56Nec vērō sīc erat umquam nōn parātus Milō contrā illum ut nōn satis ferē esset parātus.Nor indeed was Milo ever so unprepared against him as not to be fairly well prepared. Mil. 21.56Semper ipse et quantum interesset P. Clōdiī sē interīre et quantō illī odiō esset et quantum ille audēret cōgitābat.He always kept in mind how much it mattered to Publius Clodius that he should perish, how greatly Clodius hated him, and how much Clodius would dare. Mil. 21.56Quam ob rem vītam suam quam maximīs praemiīs prōpositam et paene addictam sciēbat numquam in perīculum sine praesidiō et sine custōdiā prōiciēbat.For this reason he never exposed to danger his life, which he knew had been put up for the greatest rewards and almost knocked down to the bidder, without a guard and without protection. Mil. 21.56Adde cāsūs, adde incertōs exitūs pugnārum Mārtemque commūnem, quī saepe spoliantem iam et exsultantem ēvertit et perculit ab abiectō;Add chance, add the uncertain outcomes of battles and Mars who favours both sides, who often overthrows and strikes down a man already despoiling and exulting, by the hand of one laid low; Mil. 21.56adde īnscītiam prānsī, pōtī, ōscitantis ducis quī, cum ā tergō hostem interclūsum relīquisset, nihil dē eius extrēmīs comitibus cōgitāvit, in quōs incēnsōs īrā vītamque dominī dēspērantis cum incidisset, haesit in eīs poenīs quās ab eō servī fidēlēs prō dominī vītā expetīvērunt.add the incompetence of a commander who had lunched, drunk and was yawning, who, having left his enemy cut off in his rear, gave no thought to the hindmost of his companions; and when he fell among them, burning with anger and despairing of their master's life, he was caught in the punishment which those faithful slaves exacted from him for their master's life.
Mil. 21.57Cūr igitur eōs manū mīsit?Why, then, did he free them? Mil. 21.57Metuēbat scīlicet nē indicārētur, nē dolōrem perferre nōn possent, nē tormentīs cōgerentur occīsum esse ā servīs Milōnis in Appiā viā P. Clōdium cōnfitērī.He was afraid, no doubt, that he would be informed against, that they could not endure pain, that they would be forced by torture to confess that Publius Clodius had been killed on the Appian Way by Milo's slaves. Mil. 21.57Quid opus est terrōre?What need is there of terror? Mil. 21.57quid quaeris?what are you asking? Mil. 21.57Occīderitne?Did he kill him? Mil. 21.57occīdit.He did. Mil. 21.57Iūre an iniūriā?Rightly or wrongly? Mil. 21.57Nihil ad tortōrem: factī enim in eculeō quaestiō est, iūris in iūdiciō.That is no business of the torturer: on the rack the inquiry is into the fact, in court into the right.