Pro Caelio 56 translation

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Therefore there remains the charge of poisoning, of which I can neither find the beginning nor unravel the end.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

For what was the reason as to why Caelius would want to give poison to such a woman? In order to not give back the gold?

Question 3

num petivit? ne crimen haereret? numquis obiecit?

Answer 3

Surely he did not ask for it? So that the charge would not stick? Surely no one accused him?

Question 4

numquis denique fecisset mentionem, si hic nullius nomen detulisset?

Answer 4

Finally, surely no one would have made mention of it if this man had not accused any one?

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Moreover, you heard Lucius Herennius say that he would not have troubled Caelius with a single word,

Question 6

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

Answer 6

if he had not for a second time accused his friend about the same matter for which he had already been acquitted.

Question 7

credibile est igitur tantum facinus ob nullam causam esse commissum?

Answer 7

Is it credible, therefore, that so great a crime was committed for no reason?

Question 8

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

Answer 8

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?