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! C7 l1 L* r2 E8 C第70节很精彩,很有四两拨千金的气势。前面的那么多铺垫,到这里亮出了剑:公器不容私用。把法律拔
* ~2 K m1 Q; d ]1 Z的越高,就越显出这个审判本身的荒谬。最后一句像是把气球戳破了的感觉。
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% C. I* \7 p [& P j我根据Yonge的英文版译了一下凑个热闹,尽量把法庭辩论的气势体现出来。- S7 z! T1 i& r! _2 q- D
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1. 诸位审判员,我在此已经全面陈述并总结了案情。* U+ v X6 Y9 Q& U6 V" t
2. 对于这个提交给你们裁决的案件,你们现在知道了它有多重要,你们的责任有多重大。
1 y3 K1 A8 T( h# y+ K b3. 在你们主持审判这项暴力指控的时候,依据的是这样一部法律:
9 ~/ h6 x; I, t& K4. 它事关国家主权、尊严和利益;保障所有人的生命人身安全;
# G# G( @8 D" }; A7 x% B' r/ y, g5. 在同胞们干戈相见,共和国危在旦夕的关头,昆图斯·卡图鲁斯通过了这部法律;1 G; x5 i v7 P+ }* ?2 K, s9 Z
6. 曾经疯狂燃烧的阴谋火焰虽然已在我的任内平息,正是这部法律熄灭了它的残烟余烬。
6 U; {6 _/ V) ], t6 M8 ^* o7. 现在,这部法律却被用来扼杀马库斯·凯利乌斯的青春,并非出于国家利益而实施惩罚,7 E, y/ V; D" @8 _- h
8. 仅仅是为了满足一个女人的骄纵淫欲。
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4 Z$ Z' q: x' F3 ]5 p& G1 n' E1. The cause has now been fully stated by me, O judges, and summed up. b- y0 D! J. p
2. You now understand how important an action this is which has been submitted to your decision; how serious a charge is confided to you. 6 l& r- U% Z8 O% q/ y
3. You are presiding over an investigation into a charge of violence;1 {4 b5 V8 i0 Y' e7 s; z
4. —into a law which concerns the empire, the majesty of the state, the condition of the country, and the safety of all the citizens;' f* \/ U+ f; o" B1 v* s
5. —a law which Quintus Catulus passed at a time when armed dissensions were dividing the people,
. |+ j O8 P& ?( {and when the republic was almost at its last gasp;. B% o- Q6 u% s% a
6. —a law which, after the flame which raged so fiercely in my consulship had been allayed, extinguished the smoking relics of the conspiracy. 7. Under this law the youth of Marcus Caelius is demanded, not for the sake of enduring any punishment called for by the republic, : _9 D: G+ t$ g: D# l
8. but in order to be sacrificed to the lust and profligate pleasures of a woman.% U+ N8 y) R* o3 y; L" c
; H" r R8 G$ B. ]/ D; c {: x你给的约克大学版本链接指向学校首页,我找到的约克版本是这样的,和你的应该不是一个版本:
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* j }8 E' l9 H$ g! ?* uMy plea is spoken and done, gentlemen of the jury.
) A4 e4 f8 o) A1 M4 ZNow you understand what matters of weighty import depend on your decision.$ l+ G" g f; j4 A5 f3 r
You have been impaneled to judge a case of aggravated assault. # u2 ^0 ~- W) i+ t5 t0 Z
The law involved is the one Quintus Catulus passed when the stage was almost on its last legs during armed civil conflict.
. Y& E0 G1 k o- ^9 }/ {% IIt is a law vital to the sovereignty, majesty, and well-being of our country, - T! s1 g2 z( U+ e# w
a law that safeguards the lives and persons of all, 9 V5 E6 O+ S2 T G6 z4 m* }
a law under which the last smoking embers of conspiracy were extinguished after the main conflagration had been stamped out in my consulship. " H; t7 i/ Y6 E& l
And this is the law now being invoked to put Caelius' young head on the block, to satisfy, " j) E' A q+ W& X& C
not the exigencies of the nation, but the lust and caprice of one woman. |
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