Cicero Pro Caelio 33

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sed tamen ex ipsa quaeram prius utrum me secum severe et graviter et prisce agere malit, an remisse et leniter et urbane.
But still I will first put this question to her herself, whether she wishes me to deal with her strictly, and gravely, and according to old-fashioned notions of right and wrong; or indulgently, mercifully, and courteously.
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si illo austero more ac modo, aliquis mihi ab inferis excitandus est ex barbatis illis, non hac barbula qua ista delectatur
If I am to proceed in the old-fashioned way and manner of pleading, then I must summon up from the shades below one of those bearded old men,—not men with those little bits of imperials which she takes such a fancy to,
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sed illa horrida quam in statuis antiquis atque imaginibus videmus, qui obiurget mulierem et qui pro me loquatur ne mihi ista forte suscenseat.
but a man with that long shaggy beard which we see on the ancient statues and images,—to reproach the woman, and to speak in my stead, lest she by any chance should get angry with me.
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exsistat igitur ex hac ipsa familia aliquis ac potissimum Caecus ille; minimum enim dolorem capiet qui istam non videbit.
Let, then, some one of her own family rise up, and above all others that great blind Claudius of old time. For he will feel the least grief, in as much as he will not see her.
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qui profecto, si exstiterit, sic aget ac sic loquetur:
And, in truth, if he can come forth from the dead, he will deal thus with her; he will say,—
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'mulier, quid tibi cum Caelio, quid cum homine adulescentulo, quid cum alieno?
“Woman, what have you to do with Caelius? What have you to do with a very young man? What have you to do with one who does not belong to you?
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Cur aut tam familiaris fuisti ut aurum commodares, aut tam inimica ut venenum timeres?
Why have you been so intimate with him as to lend him gold, or so much an enemy of his as to fear his poison?
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non patrem tuum videras, non patruum, non avum, non proavum, non abavum, non atavum audieras consules fuisse;
Had you never seen that your father, had you never heard that your uncle, your grand-father, your great-grandfather, your great-great-grand-father, were all consuls?
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si illo austero more ac modo, aliquis mihi ab inferis excitandus est ex barbatis illis, non hac barbula qua ista delectatur

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If I am to proceed in the old-fashioned way and manner of pleading, then I must summon up from the shades below one of those bearded old men,—not men with those little bits of imperials which she takes such a fancy to,

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sed illa horrida quam in statuis antiquis atque imaginibus videmus, qui obiurget mulierem et qui pro me loquatur ne mihi ista forte suscenseat.

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exsistat igitur ex hac ipsa familia aliquis ac potissimum Caecus ille; minimum enim dolorem capiet qui istam non videbit.

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qui profecto, si exstiterit, sic aget ac sic loquetur:

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