Mur. 41.1Sī, quod Iuppiter ōmen āvertat!If — and may Jupiter avert the omen! Mur. 41.1hunc vestrīs sententiīs adflīxeritis, quō sē miser vertet?you strike him down with your votes, where will the poor man turn? Mur. 41.1domumne?home? Mur. 41.1ut eam imāginem clārissimī virī, parentis suī, quam paucīs ante diēbus laureātam in suā grātulātiōne cōnspēxit, eandem dēfōrmātam ignōminiā lūgentemque videat?to see that likeness of a most distinguished man, his father, which a few days ago he saw crowned with laurel at his celebration, now disfigured with disgrace and in mourning? Mur. 41.1An ad mātrem quae misera modo cōnsulem ōsculāta fīlium suum nunc cruciātur et sollicita est nē eundem paulō post spoliātum omnī dignitāte cōnspiciat?Or to his mother, who, poor woman, lately kissed her son as consul and is now tormented and anxious lest she should soon see that same son stripped of all dignity? Mur. 41.89Sed quid eius mātrem aut domum appellō quem nova poena lēgis et domō et parente et omnium suōrum cōnsuētūdine cōnspectūque prīvat?But why do I speak of his mother or his home, when the new penalty of the law deprives him of home and parent and of the company and sight of all his own?
Mur. 41.89Ībit igitur in exsilium miser?Will the poor man, then, go into exile? Mur. 41.89Quō?Where? Mur. 41.89ad Orientisne partīs in quibus annōs multōs lēgātus fuit, exercitūs dūxit, rēs maximās gessit?to the regions of the East, in which he served for many years as legate, led armies, performed the greatest deeds? Mur. 41.89At habet magnum dolōrem, unde cum honōre dēcesserīs, eōdem cum ignōminiā revertī.But it is a great grief to return in disgrace to the place you left with honour. Mur. 41.89An sē in contrāriam partem terrārum abdet, ut Gallia Trānsalpīna, quem nūper summō cum imperiō libentissimē vīderit, eundem lūgentem, maerentem, exsulem videat?Or will he hide himself in the opposite part of the world, so that Transalpine Gaul, which lately saw him with the greatest delight in supreme command, should see the same man mourning, grieving, an exile? Mur. 41.89In eā porrō prōvinciā quō animō Mūrēnam frātrem suum aspiciet?In that province, moreover, with what feelings will he look upon his brother Murena? Mur. 41.89Quī huius dolor, quī illīus maeror erit, quae utrīusque lāmentātiō, quanta autem perturbātiō fortūnae atque sermōnis, cum, quibus in locīs paucīs ante diēbus factum esse cōnsulem Mūrēnam nūntiī litteraeque celebrāssent et unde hospitēs atque amīcī grātulātum Rōmam concurrerent, repente exstiterit ipse nūntius suae calamitātis!What will be this man's grief, what that man's sorrow, what the lamentation of both, and how great the reversal of fortune and of talk, when, in the places where a few days before messengers and letters had celebrated Murena's election as consul, and from which guests and friends were hurrying to Rome to congratulate him, he suddenly appears himself as the messenger of his own disaster!
Mur. 41.90Quae sī acerba, sī misera, sī lūctuōsa sunt, sī aliēnissima ā mānsuētūdine et misericordiā vestrā, iūdicēs, cōnservāte populī Rōmānī beneficium, reddite reī pūblicae cōnsulem, date hoc ipsīus pudōrī, date patrī mortuō, date generī et familiae, date etiam Lānuviō, mūnicipiō honestissimō, quod in hāc tōtā causā frequēns maestumque vīdistis.If these things are bitter, if wretched, if mournful, if utterly foreign to your gentleness and pity, judges, preserve the favour of the Roman people, restore to the state its consul, grant this to his own modesty, grant it to his dead father, grant it to his race and family, grant it also to Lanuvium, a most honourable town, which you have seen throughout this whole case present in numbers and in mourning. Mur. 41.90Nōlīte ā sacrīs patriīs Iūnōnis Sōspitae, cui omnīs cōnsulēs facere necesse est, domesticum et suum cōnsulem potissimum āvellere.Do not tear away from the ancestral rites of Juno Sospita, to whom all consuls must sacrifice, the one consul who is above all her own and from her own home. Mur. 41.90Quem ego vōbīs, sī quid habet aut mōmentī commendātiō aut auctōritātis cōnfirmātiō mea, cōnsul cōnsulem, iūdicēs, ita commendō ut cupidissimum ōtī, studiōsissimum bonōrum, ācerrimum contrā sēditiōnem, fortissimum in bellō, inimīcissimum huic coniūrātiōnī quae nunc rem pūblicam labefactat futūrum esse prōmittam et spondeam.And I, as consul commending a consul, judges, commend him to you, if my recommendation has any weight or my assurance any authority, in such a way that I promise and guarantee that he will be most desirous of peace, most devoted to the good, most vigorous against sedition, bravest in war, and most hostile to this conspiracy which is now shaking the state.