§8iratum te regi Deiotaro fuisse non erant nescii; adfectum illum quibusdam incommodis et detrimentis propter offensionem animi tui meminerant, teque cum huic iratum, tum sibi amicum esse cognoverant, quodque apud ipsum te de tuo periculo dicerent, fore putabant ut in exulcerato animo facile fictum crimen insideret.
They were not ignorant that you had been angry with King Deiotarus; they remembered that he had been affected by certain inconveniences and losses because of your displeasure, and they had recognized that you were on the one hand angry with him, and on the other hand friendly to themselves; and because they were speaking before you yourself concerning your own danger, they thought that a fabricated charge would easily take root in a wounded mind.
quam ob rem hoc nos primum metu, Caesar, per fidem et constantiam et clementiam tuam libera, ne residere in te ullam partem iracundiae suspicemur.
Therefore, Caesar, by your good faith, consistency, and clemency, free us first from this fear, so that we may not suspect that any part of anger remains in you.
per dexteram istam te oro quam regi Deiotaro hospes hospiti porrexisti, istam, inquam, dexteram non tam in bellis neque in proeliis quam in promissis et fide firmiorem.
I entreat you by that right hand of yours which you, as guest-friend to guest-friend, extended to King Deiotarus—that right hand, I say, which is stronger not so much in wars and battles as in promises and good faith.
tu illius domum inire, tu vetus hospitium renovare voluisti; te eius di penates acceperunt, te amicum et placatum Deiotari regis arae focique viderunt.
You wished to enter his house, you wished to renew the old guest-friendship; his household gods welcomed you, and the altars and hearths of King Deiotarus saw you friendly and appeased.
§9cum facile orari, Caesar, tum semel exorari soles.
You are accustomed, Caesar, not only to be easily entreated, but also to be appeased once and for all.
nemo umquam te placavit inimicus qui ullas resedisse in te simultatis reliquias senserit.
No enemy has ever appeased you who felt that any remains of enmity stayed in you.
quamquam cui sunt inauditae cum Deiotaro querelae tuae? numquam tu illum accusavisti ut hostem, sed ut amicum officio parum functum, quod propensior in Cn. Pompei amicitiam fuisset quam in tuam: cui tamen ipsi rei veniam te daturum fuisse dicebas, si tum auxilia Pompeio vel si etiam filium misisset, ipse aetatis excusatione usus esset.
And yet, to whom are your complaints with Deiotarus unheard of? You never accused him as an enemy, but as a friend who had insufficiently performed his duty, because he had been more inclined towards the friendship of Gnaeus Pompeius than towards yours; for which very matter, however, you used to say that you would have granted pardon if at that time he had sent troops to Pompey, or even if he had sent his son, and had himself made use of the excuse of his age.
§10ita cum maximis eum rebus liberares, perparvam culpam relinquebas.
Thus, while you cleared him of the greatest charges, you left only a very small fault.
itaque non solum in eum non animadvertisti sed omni metu liberavisti, hospitem agnovisti, regem reliquisti.
And so you not only did not punish him, but you freed him from all fear, acknowledged him as a guest-friend, and left him a king.
neque enim ille odio tui progressus, sed errore communi lapsus est.
For he did not act out of hatred for you, but slipped through a common error.
is rex quem senatus hoc nomine saepe honorificentissimis decretis appellavisset, quique illum ordinem ab adulescentia gravissimum sanctissimumque duxisset, isdem rebus est perturbatus homo longinquus et alienigena quibus nos in media re publica nati semperque versati.
That king, whom the senate had often addressed by this name in most honorable decrees, and who from his youth had esteemed that order as the most grave and sacred, was disturbed, though a man from a far country and a foreigner, by the very same things by which we, born and always engaged in the midst of the republic, were disturbed.
§11cum audiret senatus consentientis auctoritate arma sumpta, consulibus, praetoribus, tribunis plebis, nobis imperatoribus rem publicam defendendam datam, movebatur animo et vir huic imperio amicissimus de salute populi Romani extimescebat, in qua etiam suam esse inclusam videbat.
When he heard that arms had been taken up by the authority of a unanimous senate, and that the defense of the republic had been entrusted to the consuls, praetors, tribunes of the plebs, and to us as commanders, he was moved in mind, and as a man most friendly to this empire, he was terrified for the safety of the Roman people, in which he saw that his own safety also was included.
in summo tamen timore quiescendum esse arbitrabatur.
Yet in his extreme fear, he thought he ought to remain quiet.
maxime vero perturbatus est, ut audivit consules ex Italia profugisse, omnis consularis—sic enim ei nuntiabatur—cunctum senatum, totam Italiam effusam.
But he was most greatly disturbed when he heard that the consuls had fled from Italy, and that all the consulars—for so it was reported to him—the entire senate, and all Italy had fled.
talibus enim nuntiis et rumoribus patebat ad orientem via nec ulli veri subsequebantur.
For by such reports and rumors the road to the East lay open, and no true reports followed.
nihil ille de condicionibus tuis, nihil de studio concordiae et pacis, nihil de conspiratione audiebat certorum hominum contra dignitatem tuam.
He heard nothing of your proposals, nothing of your desire for harmony and peace, nothing of the conspiracy of certain men against your dignity.
quae cum ita essent, tamen usque eo se tenuit quoad a Cn. Pompeio legati ad eum litteraeque venerunt.
Although this was so, yet he restrained himself until envoys and letters came to him from Gnaeus Pompeius.
§12ignosce, ignosce, Caesar, si eius viri auctoritati rex Deiotarus cessit quem nos omnes secuti sumus; ad quem cum di atque homines omnia ornamenta congessissent, tum tu ipse plurima et maxima.
Forgive, forgive, Caesar, if King Deiotarus yielded to the authority of that man whom we all followed; upon whom while gods and men had heaped all honors, then you yourself had heaped the most and the greatest.
nec enim, si tuae res gestae ceterorum laudibus obscuritatem attulerunt, idcirco Cn. Pompei memoriam amisimus.
For even if your achievements have brought obscurity to the praises of all others, we have not on that account lost the memory of Gnaeus Pompeius.
quantum nomen illius fuerit, quantae opes, quanta in omni genere bellorum gloria, quanti honores populi Romani, quanti senatus, quanti tui, quis ignorat? tanto ille superiores vicerat gloria quanto tu omnibus praestitisti.
Who is ignorant of how great his name was, how great his resources, how great his glory in every kind of war, how great the honors of the Roman people, how great those of the senate, and how great yours to him? He had surpassed his predecessors in glory by as much as you have excelled everyone.
itaque Cn. Pompei bella, victorias, triumphos, consulatus admirantes numerabamus: tuos enumerare non possumus.
And so, we used to count Gnaeus Pompeius's wars, victories, triumphs, and consulships with admiration; yours we cannot even enumerate.