Against Lucius Calpurnius Piso

[fr.1] O ye immortal gods, what a day is this which has dawned […]

[…] What specimen, even the slightest, have you ever given of ability? Of ability, do I say? Rather should I say, what proof have you ever given of being an honourable or a free man? You, who by your complexion seem to throw a doubt on your country, by your speech on your family, by your morals on your name […] [fr.9]

[…] This has nothing to do with leading us to think slightly of Placentia, of which place he boasts that he is a native: for my nature does not incline me to his; nor does the dignity of a municipal town, especially of one which has deserved exceedingly well at my hands, allow me to entertain such feelings. […] [fr.11]

[…] There was a certain Insubrian who was both a merchant and a crier; he, when he had come to Rome with his daughter, ventured to call a young man of high birth, named Caesoninus, the son of a most thorough rogue: he gave his daughter in marriage to […] him. And she became the mother of you, a beast rather than a man. [Concerning Piso's maternal grandfather] […] When he had settled on the banks of the Po at Placentia, a few years afterwards he obtained the freedom of that city; for it was a city at that time. For before that he was considered a Gaul; then a man of Gallic extraction; and at last he began to be considered a sort of half-Placentian. […] [fr.12]

[…] That Insubrian grandfather of his adopted the elder […] [fr.13]

[…] Your father wanted a more luxurious son-in-law than Caius Piso did at that time of his distress […] I did not give my daughter in marriage to that man whom, when I had the power of choosing from all the world, I should have selected in preference to any one. […] [fr.15]

[…] When the whole of your relations arrive in a wagon […]

[…] You put out your head, butting at him […]

[…] I was sitting next to Pompeius […] [cap.1] [1]