Mil. 33.1Hīc dī immortālēs, ut suprā dīxī, mentem illī perditō ac furiōsō dedērunt ut huic faceret īnsidiās.At this point the immortal gods, as I said above, put it into the mind of that desperate madman to lay an ambush for Milo. Mil. 33.1Aliter perīre pestis illa nōn potuit;In no other way could that plague have perished; Mil. 33.1numquam illum rēs pūblica suō iūre esset ulta.the state would never have avenged itself on him by its own right. Mil. 33.1Senātus, crēdō, praetōrem eum circumscrīpsisset.The senate, I suppose, would have restrained him as praetor. Mil. 33.1Nē cum solēbat quidem id facere, in prīvātō eōdem hōc aliquid prōfēcerat.Not even when it used to do that had it achieved anything against this same man as a private citizen. Mil. 33.89An cōnsulēs in praetōre coercendō fortēs fuissent?Or would the consuls have been brave in restraining a praetor? Mil. 33.89Prīmum Milōne occīsō habuisset suōs cōnsulēs;First, with Milo killed, he would have had his own consuls; Mil. 33.89deinde Quis in eō praetōre cōnsul fortis esset per quem tribūnum virtūtem cōnsulārem crūdēlissimē vexātam esse meminisset?next, what consul would be brave against a praetor by whom, as tribune, he remembered that consular courage had been most cruelly harassed?
Mil. 33.89Oppressisset omnia, possidēret, tenēret;He would have overwhelmed everything, he would possess it, he would hold it; Mil. 33.89lēge novā, quae est inventa apud eum cum reliquīs lēgibus Clōdiānīs, servōs nostrōs lībertōs suōs effēcisset;by a new law, which was found at his house with the rest of the Clodian laws, he would have made our slaves his own freedmen; Mil. 33.89postrēmō, nisi eum dī immortālēs in eam mentem impulissent ut homō effēminātus fortissimum virum cōnārētur occīdere, hodiē rem pūblicam nūllam habērētis.finally, had the immortal gods not driven him to the idea that he, an effeminate man, should try to kill the bravest of men, you would have no state today. Mil. 33.90An ille praetor, ille vērō cōnsul, sī modo haec templa atque ipsa moenia stāre eō vīvō tam diū et cōnsulātum eius exspectāre potuissent, ille dēnique vīvus malī nihil fēcisset cui mortuō ūnus ex suīs satellitibus cūriam incenderit?Would that man as praetor, or still more as consul — if only these temples and the very walls could have stood so long while he lived and awaited his consulship — would that man, in short, have done no harm while alive, when, after his death, one of his henchmen set fire to the senate house?
Mil. 33.90Quō quid miserius, quid acerbius, quid lūctuōsius vīdimus?What have we seen more wretched than that, more bitter, more mournful? Mil. 33.90templum sānctitātis, amplitūdinis, mentis, cōnsilī pūblicī, caput urbis, āram sociōrum, portum omnium gentium, sēdem ab ūniversō populō concessam ūnī ōrdinī, īnflammārī, exscindī, fūnestārī, neque id fierī ā multitūdine imperītā, quamquam esset miserum id ipsum, sed ab ūnō?that the temple of holiness, of dignity, of wisdom, of public counsel, the head of the city, the altar of the allies, the haven of all nations, the seat granted by the whole people to one order, should be set on fire, torn down, defiled, and that this should be done not by an ignorant mob, though even that would be wretched, but by one man? Mil. 33.90Quī cum tantum ausus sit ūstor prō mortuō, quid signifer prō vīvō nōn esset ausūrus?When he dared so much as burner for a dead man, what would he not have dared as standard-bearer for a living one? Mil. 33.90In cūriam potissimum abiēcit, ut eam mortuus incenderet quam vīvus ēverterat.He threw him into the senate house of all places, so that dead he might burn the building he had overturned while alive.
Mil. 33.91Et sunt quī dē viā Appiā querantur, taceant dē cūriā, et quī ab eō spīrante forum putent potuisse dēfendī, cuius nōn restiterit cadāverī cūria?And are there people who complain about the Appian Way and say nothing about the senate house, and who think that the forum could have been defended against him while he breathed, when the senate house could not withstand his corpse? Mil. 33.91Excitāte, excitāte ipsum, sī potestis, ā mortuīs: frangētis impetum vīvī cuius vix sustinētis furiās īnsepultī?Raise him, raise him from the dead, if you can: will you break the onslaught of the living man, when you can scarcely withstand the fury of his unburied corpse? Mil. 33.91Nisi vērō sustinuistis eōs quī cum facibus ad cūriam concurrērunt, cum fascibus ad Castoris, cum gladiīs tōtō forō volitāvērunt.Unless indeed you withstood those who ran to the senate house with torches, to the temple of Castor with the fasces, and flew about the whole forum with swords. Mil. 33.91Caedī vīdistis populum Rōmānum, contiōnem gladiīs disturbārī, cum audīrētur silentiō M. Caelius, tribūnus plēbis, vir et in rē pūblicā fortissimus, in susceptā causā firmissimus, et bonōrum voluntātī, auctōritātī senātūs dēditus, et in hāc Milōnis sīve invidiā sīve fortūnā, singulārī, dīvīnā, incrēdibilī fidē.You saw the Roman people being slaughtered, a public meeting broken up with swords, while Marcus Caelius, tribune of the plebs, was being heard in silence, a man most courageous in public life, most steadfast in a cause once undertaken, devoted to the wishes of good men and the authority of the senate, and, in this odium or misfortune of Milo's, of singular, divine, incredible loyalty.