Chapter 56

Question 1

Reliquum est igitur crimen de veneno; cuius ego nec principium invenire neque evolvere exitum possum.

Answer 1

There remains, therefore, the charge of poison; of this, I can neither find a beginning nor unravel the end.

Question 2

quae fuit enim causa quam ob rem isti mulieri venenum dare vellet Caelius?

Answer 2

For what reason was there why Caelius would wish to give poison to a woman of that kind?

Question 3

ne aurum redderet? num petivit?

Answer 3

So that he would not have to give back the gold? Surely she didn’t ask for it?

Question 4

ne crimen haereret? num quis obiecit?

Answer 4

So that the accusation would not stick to him? Surely there was no one who brought it against him?

Question 5

numquis denique fecisset mentionem, si hic nullius nomen detulisset?

Answer 5

To sum up, surely no would have made a mention [of it], if he had not brought a prosecution against anyone?

Question 6

quin etiam L. Herennium dicere audistis verbo se molestum non futurum fuisse Caelio,

Answer 6

Indeed, furthermore, you heard Lucius Herennius say that he would not have been troublesome to Caelius with a single word,

Question 7

nisi iterum eadem de re suo familiari absoluto nomen hic detulisset.

Answer 7

if he had not for a second time accused his relative about the same matter although he had been aquitted.

Question 8

credibile est igitur tantum facinus ob nullam causam esse commissum?

Answer 8

Is it credible, therefore, that such an enormous crime was committed for no reason?

Question 9

et vos non videtis fingi sceleris maximi crimen ut alterius sceleris suscipiendi fuisse causa videatur?

Answer 9

Do you also not see that an accusation of the most serious crime is being made up so that there might seem to have been a motive for committing a second crime?