Cicero Pro Caelio 65

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potueruntne magis tempore prosilire quam cum Licinius venisset, cum in manu teneret veneni pyxidem?
Could they spring forward at a better time than when Licinius had arrived? when he was holding in his hand the box of poison?
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quae cum iam erat tradita servis, si evasissent subito ex balneis mulieris amici Liciniumque comprehendissent, imploraret hominum fidem atque a se illam pyxidem traditam pernegaret.
And if after that box had been delivered to the slaves the friends of the woman had on a sudden emerged from the baths and seized Licinius, he would have implored the protection of their good faith and have denied that that box had been delivered to
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them by him.
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quem quo modo illi reprehenderent? vidisse se dicerent?
And how would they have reproved him? Would they have said that they had seen it?
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primum ad se vocarent maximi facinoris crimen; deinde id se vidisse dicerent quod quo loco conlocati fuerant non potuissent videre.
First of all that would have been to bring the imputation of a most atrocious crime on themselves besides, they would be saying that they had seen what from the spot in which they had been placed they could not possibly have seen.
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tempore igitur ipso se ostenderunt, cum Licinius venisset, pyxidem expediret, manum porrigeret, venenum traderet.
Therefore they showed themselves at the very nick of time when Licinius had arrived and was getting out the box, and was stretching out his hand, and delivering the poison.
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mimi ergo iam exitus, non fabulae; in quo cum clausula non invenitur, fugit aliquis e manibus, dein scabilla concrepant, aulaeum tollitur.
This is rather the end of a farce than a regular comedy; in which, when a regular end cannot be invented for it someone escapes out of someone else's hands, the whistle sounds, and the curtain drops.
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quae cum iam erat tradita servis, si evasissent subito ex balneis mulieris amici Liciniumque comprehendissent, imploraret hominum fidem atque a se illam pyxidem traditam pernegaret.

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quem quo modo illi reprehenderent? vidisse se dicerent?

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primum ad se vocarent maximi facinoris crimen; deinde id se vidisse dicerent quod quo loco conlocati fuerant non potuissent videre.

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