Mil. 27.1Nec vērō mē, iūdicēs, Clōdiānum crīmen movet, nec tam sum dēmēns tamque vestrī sēnsūs ignārus atque expers ut nesciam quid dē morte Clōdī sentiātis.Nor, judges, does the charge about Clodius trouble me, nor am I so mad and so ignorant and devoid of your feelings that I do not know what you feel about Clodius' death. Mil. 27.1Dē quā sī iam nōllem ita dīluere crīmen ut dīluī, tamen impūne Milōnī palam clāmāre ac mentīrī glōriōsē licēret: "Occīdī, occīdī, nōn Sp. Maelium quī annōnā levandā iactūrīsque reī familiāris, quia nimis amplectī plēbem vidēbātur, in suspīciōnem incidit regnī appetendī, nōn Ti. Gracchum quī conlēgae magistrātum per sēditiōnem abrogāvit, quōrum interfectōrēs implērunt orbem terrārum nōminis suī glōriā, sed eum— audēret enim dīcere, cum patriam perīculō suō līberāsset— cuius nefandum adulterium in pulvīnāribus sānctissimīs nōbilissimae fēminae comprehendērunt;Even if I did not now wish to refute the charge concerning it as I have refuted it, Milo would still be permitted to cry out openly and with impunity, and to lie boastfully: 'I have killed, I have killed, not a Spurius Maelius, who by lowering the price of grain and spending his own property fell under suspicion of aiming at kingship because he seemed to court the common people too much, not a Tiberius Gracchus, who through sedition deprived his colleague of his office — men whose killers have filled the world with the glory of their name — but the man (for he would dare to say it, since he had freed his country at his own risk) whose abominable adultery on the most sacred couches of the gods was detected by women of the highest rank; Mil. 27.1" "eum cuius suppliciō senātus sollemnīs religiōnēs expiandās saepe cēnsuit;the man by whose punishment the senate often decreed that the solemn rites should be expiated; Mil. 27.73eum quem cum sorōre germānā nefārium stuprum fēcisse L. Lūcullus iūrātus sē quaestiōnibus habitīs dīxit comperisse;the man whom Lucius Lucullus declared on oath he had found, through examinations held, to have committed abominable incest with his own sister; Mil. 27.73eum quī cīvem quem senātus, quem populus Rōmānus, quem omnēs gentēs urbis ac vītae cīvium cōnservātōrem iūdicārant servōrum armīs extermināvit;the man who, with the arms of slaves, drove out a citizen whom the senate, whom the Roman people, whom all nations had judged the preserver of the city and of the lives of its citizens; Mil. 27.73eum quī regna dedit, adēmit, orbem terrārum quibuscum voluit partītus est;the man who gave kingdoms and took them away, and shared out the world with whomever he wished; Mil. 27.73eum quī plūrimīs caedibus in forō factīs singulārī virtūte et glōriā cīvem domum vī et armīs compulit;the man who, after many murders had been committed in the forum, drove a citizen of singular courage and glory into his house by violence and arms; Mil. 27.73eum cui nihil umquam nefās fuit nec in facinore nec in libīdine;the man for whom nothing was ever forbidden, either in crime or in lust; Mil. 27.73eum quī aedem Nymphārum incendit ut memoriam pūblicam recēnsiōnis tabulīs pūblicīs impressam exstingueret;the man who set fire to the temple of the Nymphs to destroy the public record of the census entered in the public registers; Mil. 27.73" "eum dēnique cui iam nūlla lēx erat, nūllum cīvīle iūs, nūllī possessiōnum terminī, quī nōn calumniā lītium, nōn iniūstīs vindiciīs ac sacrāmentīs aliēnōs fundōs, sed castrīs, exercitū, signīs īnferendīs petēbat;the man, finally, for whom there was no longer any law, any civil right, any boundaries of property, who sought other people's estates not by vexatious lawsuits, not by unjust claims and legal wagers, but with camps, an army and advancing standards; Mil. 27.74quī nōn sōlum Etrūscōs—eōs enim penitus contempserat—sed hunc P. Varium, fortissimum atque optimum cīvem, iūdicem nostrum, pellere possessiōnibus armīs castrīsque cōnātus est, quī cum architectīs et decempedīs vīllās multōrum hortōsque peragrābat, quī Iāniculō et Alpibus spem possessiōnum terminārat suārum, quī cum ab equite Rōmānō splendidō et fortī, M. Paconiō, nōn impetrāsset, ut sibi īnsulam in lacū Priliō vēnderet, repente lintribus in eam īnsulam māteriem, calcem, caementa, harēnam convēxit dominōque trāns rīpam īnspectante nōn dubitāvit aedificium exstruere in aliēnō;who tried to drive from their properties with arms and camps not only the Etruscans — for he utterly despised them — but even Publius Varius here, a most courageous and excellent citizen, one of our judges; who roamed over many people's villas and gardens with architects and measuring rods; who had set the Janiculum and the Alps as the bounds of his hopes of possession; who, when he had failed to persuade Marcus Paconius, a distinguished and brave Roman knight, to sell him an island in Lake Prilius, suddenly carried timber, lime, rubble and sand to that island in boats, and, while the owner looked on from across the bank, did not hesitate to put up a building on another man's property; Mil. 27.74quī huic T. Furfaniō, cui virō, dī immortālēs!—" "quid enim ego dē mulierculā Scantiā, quid dē adulēscente P. Aponiō dīcam?who to Titus Furfanius here — and what a man, immortal gods! — for why should I speak of the poor woman Scantia, or of the young Publius Aponius?
Mil. 27.75quōrum utrīque mortem est minātus, nisi sibi hortōrum possessiōne cessissent—;both of whom he threatened with death unless they gave up possession of their gardens to him —; Mil. 27.75sed ausum esse T. Furfaniō dīcere, sī sibi pecūniam quantam posceret nōn dedisset, mortuum sē in domum eius inlātūrum, quā invidiā huic esset tālī virō cōnflagrandum;but who dared to tell Titus Furfanius that if he did not give him as much money as he demanded, he would carry a corpse into his house, so that such a man would have to be consumed by the odium of it; Mil. 27.75quī Appium frātrem, hominem mihi coniūnctum fīdissimā grātiā, absentem dē possessiōne fundī dēiēcit;who drove his brother Appius, a man bound to me by the most faithful friendship, from possession of his estate while he was away; Mil. 27.75quī parietem sīc per vestibulum sorōris īnstituit dūcere, sīc agere fundāmenta ut sorōrem nōn modo vestibulō prīvāret sed omnī aditū et līmine."who began to build a wall through his sister's forecourt, and to lay its foundations in such a way as to deprive his sister not only of her forecourt but of every approach and threshold.'