Translate: Ad haec enim, quae in civili bello, in maximis rei publicae miseriis fecit

he did in the civil war in the greatest misery of the republic

Translate: Visne igitur te inspiciamus a puero...

So, do you want us to examine you from boyhood...

Translate: Verum implicata inscientia impudentia est

But his recklessness is intertwined with his ignorance

Translate: Primo volgare scortum:

At first you were a common prostitute

Translate: Patri persuasi, ut aes alienum filii dissolveret

I persuaded the father to dissolve the foreign debts of his son

Translate: In quo demiror...

This is what I am utterly astonished at...

Translate: Ipse autem amore ardens confirmabat

He was confirming, however, burning with love...

Translate: Ubi enim tu in pace consistes?

For where could you settle in peace?

Translate: Oh mea frustra semper verissima auguria rerum futurarum!

Oh my always very truthful but useless auguries of future things!

Translate: Obstrinxisti religione populum Romanum

you have bound the Roman people with religion

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Cicero, The Philippics: 44-50, 78-92

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Translate: Ad haec enim, quae in civili bello, in maximis rei publicae miseriis fecit
if you did not trust in the swords, those which we see
For it is right in such matters to rouse minds, not only the knowledge
he did in the civil war in the greatest misery of the republic
you however are freer because you have committed things
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Translate: Visne igitur te inspiciamus a puero...
At first you were a common prostitute...
Do you know that I speak of things that I know very well...
Do you remember that before you had come of age...
So, do you want us to examine you from boyhood...
3
Translate: Verum implicata inscientia impudentia est
But his recklessness is intertwined with his ignorance
You said this out of ignorance...
But note the arrogance and insolence...
He doesn't know what an augur should dow
4
Translate: Primo volgare scortum:
First things first I'm the realest
wait a minute. First things first
At first I was afraid
At first you were a common prostitute
5
Translate: Patri persuasi, ut aes alienum filii dissolveret
When youu have remebered that this was done by me
I don't know how, Caesar had this generally
So be it you said this out of ignorance
I persuaded the father to dissolve the foreign debts of his son
6
Translate: In quo demiror...
I don't know how...
And so I didn't even allow...
I would have preferred...
This is what I am utterly astonished at...
7
Translate: Ipse autem amore ardens confirmabat
That sheer recklessness is yours
... as a boy for lust was so in the power of his master
He was confirming, however, burning with love...
that house could no longer bear you scandal...
8
Translate: Ubi enim tu in pace consistes?
With peace as the guarantor, Trojans mixed with Latins...
I was not surprised that you were disturbing the peace
For where could you settle in peace?
We would have had peace...
9
Translate: Oh mea frustra semper verissima auguria rerum futurarum!
Oh how great the evil of the most outstanding family!
Oh my always very truthful but useless auguries of future things!
Oh Parrot, winged imitator from the East!
Oh great Trojan man!
10
Translate: Obstrinxisti religione populum Romanum
But even the empire of the Roman people has been diminished
a king could be established in Rome by Mark Antony
you have bound the Roman people with religion
A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists

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