Mil. 31.1Est, est illa vīs profectō, neque in hīs corporibus atque in hāc imbēcillitāte nostrā īnest quiddam quod vigeat et sentiat, nōn īnest in hōc tantō nātūrae tamque praeclārō mōtū.There is, there surely is such a power; and it is not the case that in these bodies and in this weakness of ours there is something that lives and feels, but not in this so great and so splendid movement of nature. Mil. 31.1Nisi forte idcircō nōn putant quia nōn appāret nec cernitur, proinde quasi nostram ipsam mentem quā sapimus, quā prōvidēmus, quā haec ipsa agimus ac dīcimus, vidēre ac plānē quālis aut ubi sit sentīre possīmus.Unless perhaps they do not believe it because it does not appear and is not seen, just as if we could see our own mind itself, by which we are wise, by which we foresee, by which we do and say these very things, and perceive clearly what it is like or where it is. Mil. 31.1Ea vīs igitur ipsa quae saepe incrēdibilīs huic urbī fēlīcitātēs atque opēs attulit illam perniciem exstīnxit ac sustulit, cui prīmum mentem iniēcit ut vī inrītāre ferrōque lacessere fortissimum virum audēret vincerēturque ab eō quem sī vīcisset habitūrus esset impūnitātem et licentiam sempiternam.That very power, then, which has often brought incredible prosperity and wealth to this city, has destroyed and removed that plague, by first putting it into his mind to dare to provoke the bravest of men with violence and to attack him with the sword, and to be defeated by the man by defeating whom he would have gained impunity and licence for ever.
Mil. 31.85Nōn est hūmānō cōnsiliō, nē mediocrī quidem, iūdicēs, deōrum immortālium cūrā rēs illa perfecta.Not by human design, judges, nor even by any ordinary care of the immortal gods, was that deed accomplished. Mil. 31.85Regiōnēs mē herculē ipsae quae illam bēluam cadere vīdērunt, commōsse sē videntur et iūs in illō suum retinuisse.The very regions, by Hercules, which saw that beast fall seem to have stirred themselves and asserted their rights over him. Mil. 31.85Vōs enim iam, Albānī tumulī atque lūcī, vōs, inquam, implōrō atque testor, vōsque, Albānōrum obrutae ārae, sacrōrum populī Rōmānī sociae et aequālēs, quās ille praeceps āmentiā caesīs prōstrātīsque sānctissimīs lūcīs substrūctiōnum īnsānīs mōlibus oppresserat;For it is you, Alban hills and groves, you, I say, that I implore and call to witness, and you, buried altars of the Albans, partners and equals of the sacred rites of the Roman people, which he in headlong madness, after cutting down and laying low the most holy groves, had crushed beneath the mad masses of his substructures; Mil. 31.85vestrae tum religiōnēs viguērunt, vestra vīs valuit, quam ille omnī scelere polluerat;your sanctities then prevailed, your power was strong, which he had defiled with every crime; Mil. 31.85tūque ex tuō ēditō monte Latiārī, sāncte Iuppiter, cuius ille lacūs, nemora fīnīsque saepe omnī nefāriō stuprō et scelere maculārat, aliquandō ad eum pūniendum oculōs aperuistī: vōbīs illae, vōbīs vestrō in cōnspectū sērae, sed iūstae tamen et dēbitae poenae solūtae sunt.and you, holy Jupiter of Latium, from your lofty mountain, whose lakes, groves and borders he had often stained with every abominable lust and crime, at last opened your eyes to punish him: to you, to you, in your sight, that late but just and deserved punishment was paid.
Mil. 31.86Nisi forte hoc etiam cāsū factum esse dīcēmus ut ante ipsum sacrārium Bonae deae, quod est in fundō T. Sertī Gallī, in prīmīs honestī et ōrnātī adulēscentis, ante ipsam, inquam, Bonam deam, cum proelium commīsisset, prīmum illud volnus acciperet quō taeterrimam mortem obīret, ut nōn absolūtus iūdiciō illō nefāriō vidērētur, sed ad hanc īnsignem poenam reservātus.Unless perhaps we shall say that this too happened by chance: that in front of the very shrine of the Good Goddess, which is on the estate of Titus Sertius Gallus, a most honourable and distinguished young man, in front of the Good Goddess herself, I say, when he had joined battle, he received that first wound from which he was to meet a most foul death, so that he seemed not to have been acquitted at that wicked trial, but to have been reserved for this signal punishment.