Messalina - Section 8

1 nam 3 Claudius 5 domum 4 regressus , 2 ubi 7 cena 9 8 vinoque 6 incaluit , 10 imperavit 11 ut 13 femina 12 misera ( 18 hoc 14 enim 19 verbo 16 Claudium 17 usum 17 esse 15 ferunt ) 22 ad 24 causam 23 dicendam 21 postridie 20 adesset . 4 quod 1 ubi 2 Narcissus 3 audivit 5 et 8 languescere 7 iram 10 redire 9 amorem 6 vidit , 11 timebat , 14 si 15 moraretur , 12 propinquam 13 noctem 16 et 18 uxorii 19 cubiculi 17 memoriam ; 1 igitur 2 prorumpit 4 3 denuntiatque 5 centurionibus 6 et 7 tribuno , 8 qui 9 aderat , 10 exsequi 11 caedem : 1 ita 2 imperatorem 3 iubere . 5 missus 4 quoque 1 unus 2 e 3 libertis : 1 is 3 raptim 4 in 5 hortos 2 praegressus 6 repperit 7 Messalinam , 9 humi 8 fusam ;

Section 8 Translation: For when Claudius, having returned home, was heated with the meal and wine, he ordered that the wretched woman (for they say this is the word Claudius used) should be present the next day to plead her case. When Narcissus heard this and saw that (Claudius's) anger was declining and that his love was returning, he began to fear the approaching night, if he delayed, and the memory of his wife's bedroom; therefore, he burst forth and ordered the centurions and a tribune, who was present, to carry out the slaughter: (he said that) this is what the emperor was ordering. One of the freedmen was also sent; he, having gone swiftly to the gardens before (the rest), found Messalina prostrate on the ground;