Cicero Pro Caelio 64

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velut haec tota fabella veteris et plurimarum fabularum poetriae quam est sine argumento, quam nullum invenire exitum potest! quid enim?
But how destitute of all proof is the whole of the story of this poetess and inventress of many fables! How totally without any conceivable object or result is it! For what does she say?
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isti tot viri — nam necesse est fuisse non paucos ut et comprehendi Licinius facile posset et res multorum oculis esset testatior —
Why did so numerous a body of men, (for it is clear enough it was not a small number, as it was requisite that Licinius should be arrested with ease, and that the transaction should be more completely proved by the eyewitness of many witnesses,)
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cur Licinium de manibus amiserunt?
why, I say, did so numerous a body of men let Licinius escape from their hands?
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qui minus enim Licinius comprehendi potuit cum se retraxit ne pyxidem traderet, quam si tradidisset?
For why was Licinius less liable to be apprehended when he had drawn back in order not to deliver up the box than he would have been if he had delivered it up?
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erant enim illi positi ut comprehenderent Licinium, ut manifesto Licinius teneretur aut cum retineret venenum aut cum tradidisset.
For those men had been placed on purpose to arrest Licinius in order that Licinius might be caught in the very fact either of having just delivered up the poison, or of still having it in his possession.
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hoc fuit totum consilium mulieris, haec istorum provincia qui rogati sunt; quos quidem tu quam ob rem temere prosiluisse dicas atque ante tempus non reperio.
This was the whole plan of the woman. This was the part allotted to those men who were asked to undertake it but why it is that they sprung forth so precipitately and prematurely as you say, I do not find stated.
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fuerant ad hoc rogati, fuerant ad hanc rem conlocati, ut venenum, ut insidiae, facinus denique ipsum ut manifesto comprenderetur.
They had been invited for this express purpose they had been placed with this especial object in order to effect the undeniable detection of the poison, of the plot, and of every particular of the crime.
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isti tot viri — nam necesse est fuisse non paucos ut et comprehendi Licinius facile posset et res multorum oculis esset testatior —

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Why did so numerous a body of men, (for it is clear enough it was not a small number, as it was requisite that Licinius should be arrested with ease, and that the transaction should be more completely proved by the eyewitness of many witnesses,)

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cur Licinium de manibus amiserunt?

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qui minus enim Licinius comprehendi potuit cum se retraxit ne pyxidem traderet, quam si tradidisset?

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erant enim illi positi ut comprehenderent Licinium, ut manifesto Licinius teneretur aut cum retineret venenum aut cum tradidisset.

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