Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Caelio [15]

Cicero says that Caelius was only superficially linked to the Catilinarian conspiracy.

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itaque vestrum crimen contra Caelium lapsum est a maledictis immodestiae ad coniurationem.

 

vos posuistis Caelium fuisse participem coniurationis, et id posuistis parva cum evidentia, quia Caelius fuit amicus Catilinae;

 

in quo non modo crimen non adhaerebat sed oratio eloquentis adulescentis vix intellegitur.

 

nam qui tam magnus furor in Caelio sit, quod tam magnum volnus aut in moribus et natura eius aut in fortuna eius?

 

et postremo cum nomen Caeli auditum est in ista suspicione?

 

dico nimium multa de re in qua minima dubia est; hoc dico.

 

non modo si Caelius in coniuratione fuisset, sed nisi Caelius fuisset inimicus coniurationi, Caelius numquam voluisset commendare annos adulescentiae accusatione coniurationis.

 

Written by Robert Amstutz

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