Sed videtur mihi loqui de eo die quo consulibus Domitio et Messala, qui praecesserant eum annum cum haec oratio dicta est, inter candidatorum Hypsaei et Milonis manus in via Sacra pugnatum est multique ex Milonis ex improviso ceciderunt.

He seems to me to speak about that day when, in the consulship of Domitius and Messala, who had served the year before the one in which this speech was delivered, there was a fight between the supporters of the candidates Hypsaeus and Milo on the via Sacra, and many of Milo's men were killed unexpectedly.