Ep. 6.5.1Scrīpseram tenuisse Varēnum, ut sibi ēvocāre testēs licēret;I had written that Varenus had won the right to call witnesses on his own behalf; Ep. 6.5.1quod plūribus aequum, quibusdam inīquum et quidem pertināciter vīsum, maximē Liciniō Nepōtī, quī sequentī senātū, cum dē rēbus aliīs referrētur, dē proximō senātūs cōnsultō disseruit fīnītamque causam retractāvit.this seemed fair to most, unfair to some, and stubbornly so, above all to Licinius Nepos, who at the next meeting of the senate, when other business was being put, spoke about the latest decree of the senate and reopened a case that was closed. Ep. 6.5.2Addidit etiam petendum ā cōnsulibus ut referrent sub exemplō lēgis ambitūs dē lēge repetundārum, an placēret in futūrum ad eam lēgem adicī, ut sīcut accūsātōribus inquīrendī testibusque dēnūntiandī potestās ex eā lēge esset, ita reīs quoque fieret.He added further that the consuls should be asked to put a motion, on the model of the law on electoral bribery, regarding the law on extortion, whether it was agreed that a clause should be added to that law for the future, that just as accusers had under it the power of making inquiries and summoning witnesses, so should defendants too.
Ep. 6.5.3Fuērunt quibus haec eius ōrātiō ut sēra et intempestīva et praepostera displicēret, quae omissō contrā dīcendī tempore castīgāret perāctum, cui potuisset occurrere.There were some whom this speech of his displeased as late, untimely and out of order, since, having let pass the time for speaking against it, it was finding fault with a decision already made, which it could have opposed. Ep. 6.5.4Iuventius quidem Celsus praetor tamquam ēmendātōrem senātūs et multīs et vehementer increpuit.Juventius Celsus the praetor indeed rebuked him at length and vehemently, as a would-be corrector of the senate. Ep. 6.5.4Respondit Nepōs rūrsusque Celsus;Nepos replied, and Celsus again; Ep. 6.5.4neuter contumēliīs temperāvit.neither refrained from insults. Ep. 6.5.5Nōlō referre quae dīcī ab ipsīs molestē tulī.I do not wish to repeat what I was distressed to hear them say. Ep. 6.5.5Quō magis quōsdam ē numerō nostrō improbāvī, quī modo ad Celsum modo ad Nepōtem, prōut hic vel ille dīceret, cupiditāte audiendī cursitābant, et nunc quasi stimulārent et accenderent, nunc quasi reconciliārent ac recompōnerent, frequentius singulīs, ambōbus interdum propitium Caesarem ut in lūdicrō aliquō precābantur.All the more did I disapprove of some of our number, who kept running, now to Celsus, now to Nepos, as one or the other was speaking, in their eagerness to hear, and now, as if egging them on and inflaming them, now, as if reconciling and composing them, kept praying that Caesar might be gracious, more often to one of them, sometimes to both, as if at some show.
Ep. 6.5.6Mihi quidem illud etiam peracerbum fuit, quod sunt alter alterī quid parārent indicātī.To me indeed this too was most bitter, that each had been told what the other was preparing. Ep. 6.5.6Nam et Celsus Nepōtī ex libellō respondit et Celsō Nepōs ex pugillāribus.For Celsus answered Nepos from a written paper, and Nepos Celsus from his notebook. Ep. 6.5.7Tanta loquācitās amīcōrum, ut hominēs iūrgātūrī id ipsum invicem scierint, tamquam convēnisset.So great was the talkativeness of their friends that men about to quarrel knew beforehand each what the other would say, as though it had been agreed. Ep. 6.5.7Valē.Farewell.