An ille praetor, ille vero consul, si modo haec templa atque ipsa moenia stare eo vivo tam diu et consulatum eius exspectare potuissent, ille denique vivus mali nihil fecisset, qui mortuus uno ex suis satellitibus Sex. Clodio duce curiam incenderit?

Had he been praetor, ay, and consul too, if these temples and these very walls could have stood so long, while he lived, and could have awaited the coming of his consulship-- nay, had he been alive at all, is it to be thought that he would have done no mischief, seeing that after death, under the leadership of one poor minion of his, Sextus Clodius, he burned the Senate house?