Cicero 59

Socii vero nationesque externae soem omnem tim primum abiecerunt rerum ac fortunarum suarum,

But the allies and foreign nations then first abandoned all hope of saving any of their property

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propterea quod casu legati ex Asia atque Achaia plurimi Romae tunc fuerunt,

because at it happened, there were at that time very many ambassadors from Asia and Achaia and Rome

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qui deorum simulacra ex suis fanis sublata in foro venerabantur.

who worshipped in the forum the images of the gods which had been taken from their temples.

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Itemque cetera signa et ornamenta cognoscerunt, alia alio in loco lacrimantes intuebantur.

And also, when they recognised the other statues and ornaments, they wept, as they beheld the different pieces of their property in different places.

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Quorum omnium hunc sermonem tum esse audiebamus, nihil esse quod quisquam dubitaret de exitio sociorum et amicorum

And from all those men we then used to hear this conversation - that it was impossible for anyone to doubt the destruction of our allies and friends,

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cum quidem viderunt in foro populi Romani, quo in loco antea qui sociis iniurias fecerunt accusari et condemnari solebant,

when they saw in the forum of the Roman people, in which formerly those men used to be accused and condemned who had done any injury to the allies,

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ibi esse palam posita ea quae ab sociis per scelus ablata ereptaque essent.

those things now openly placed which had been wickedly seized and taken away from the allies.

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propterea quod casu legati ex Asia atque Achaia plurimi Romae tunc fuerunt,

because at it happened, there were at that time very many ambassadors from Asia and Achaia and Rome

qui deorum simulacra ex suis fanis sublata in foro venerabantur.

Itemque cetera signa et ornamenta cognoscerunt, alia alio in loco lacrimantes intuebantur.

Quorum omnium hunc sermonem tum esse audiebamus, nihil esse quod quisquam dubitaret de exitio sociorum et amicorum

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