Cicero Day 7 Chapter 16

Vēnistī paulō ante in senātum.

You came into the Senate a little while ago.

Quis tē ex hāc tantā frequentiā totque tuīs amīcīs ac necessāriīs salūtāvit?

Who among this enormous crowd and so many of your friends and acquaintances greeted you?

Sī hoc post hominum memoriam contigit nēminī, vōcis exspectās contumēliam, cum sīs gravissimō iūdiciō taciturnitātis oppressus?

If this has happened to no one within human memory, do you expect an insult in words, when you have been overwhelmed by the most serious judgment of silence?

Quid, quod adventū tuō ista subsellia vacuēfacta sunt?

What about the fact that those benches have been emptied by your arrival?

Quod omnēs cōnsulārēs, quī tibi persaepe ad caedem cōnstitūtī fuērunt, simul atque adsēdistī, partem istam subselliōrum nūdam atque inānem relīquērunt, quō tandem animō hoc tibi ferendum putās?

What about the fact you that all the men of consular rank, who have very often been designated by you for slaughter, as soon as you sat down, left that section of the benches bare and empty, with what state of mind do you think you ought to endure this?