1I understand, judges, that there were three parts to the whole accusation, and that one of them was concerned with censure of his life, the second with a comparison of standing, and the third with charges of bribery. 1And of these three parts the first, which ought to have been the weightiest, was so weak and trivial that it was some rule of prosecution, rather than any real ground for abuse, that forced them to say something about Murena's life. 1For Asia was thrown in his face; 1but he did not seek it out for pleasure and luxury, but travelled through it in military service. 1If as a young man he had not served under his own father as commander, it would have seemed that he had feared either the enemy or his father's command, or that he had been rejected by his parent.
1Or, when sons still in the purple-bordered toga customarily ride on the horses of those who are celebrating a triumph, ought he to have avoided adorning his father's triumph with military decorations, so that, having shared in the achievements, he might almost triumph together with his father?