Cicero Pro Caelio 34

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non denique modo te Q. Metelli matrimonium tenuisse sciebas, clarissimi ac fortissimi viri patriaeque amantissimi,
Did you not know, moreover, that you were bound in wedlock to Quintus Metellus, a most illustrious and gallant man, and most devoted to his country?
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qui simul ac pedem limine extulerat, omnis prope civis virtute, gloria, dignitate superabat?
who from the first moment that he put his foot over his threshold, showed himself superior to almost all citizens in virtue, and glory, and dignity.
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cum ex amplissimo genere in familiam clarissimam nupsisses, cur tibi Caelius tam coniunctus fuit?
When you had become his wife, and, being previously of a most illustrious race yourself, hadmarried into a most renowned family, why was Caelius so intimate with you?
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cognatus, adfinis, viri tui familiaris?
Was he a relation? a connection? Was he a friend of your husband?
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nihil eorum. quid igitur fuit nisi quaedam temeritas ac libido?
Nothing of the sort. What then was the reason, except it was some folly or lust?
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nonne te, si nostrae imagines viriles non commovebant, ne progenies quidem mea, Q. illa Claudia, aemulam domesticae laudis in gloria muliebri esse admonebat,
Even if the images of us, the men of your family, had no influence over you, did not even my own daughter, that celebrated Quinta Claudia, admonish you to emulate the praise belonging to our house from the glory of its women?
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non virgo illa Vestalis Claudia quae patrem complexa triumphantem ab inimico tribuno plebei de curru detrahi passa non est?
Did not that vestal virgin Claudia recur to your mind, who embraced her father while celebrating his triumph, and prevented his being dragged from his chariot by a hostile tribune of the people?
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cur te fraterna vitia potius quam bona paterna et avita et usque a nobis cum in viris tum etiam in feminis repetita moverunt?
Why had the vices of your brother more weight with you than the virtues of your father, of your grandfather, and others in regular descent ever since my own time; virtues exemplified not only in the men, but also in the women?
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ideone ego pacem Pyrrhi diremi ut tu amorum turpissimorum cotidie foedera ferires,
Was it for this that I broke the treaty which was concluded with Pyrrhus, that you should every day make new treaties of most disgraceful love?
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ideo aquam adduxi ut ea tu inceste uterere,
Was it for this that I brought water into the city, that you should use it for your impious purposes?
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ideo viam munivi ut eam tu alienis viris comitata celebrares?'
Was it for this that I made the Appian road, that you should travel along it escorted by other men besides your husband?”
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qui simul ac pedem limine extulerat, omnis prope civis virtute, gloria, dignitate superabat?

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who from the first moment that he put his foot over his threshold, showed himself superior to almost all citizens in virtue, and glory, and dignity.

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cum ex amplissimo genere in familiam clarissimam nupsisses, cur tibi Caelius tam coniunctus fuit?

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cognatus, adfinis, viri tui familiaris?

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nihil eorum. quid igitur fuit nisi quaedam temeritas ac libido?

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