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It's International Book Week. The rules: Grab the closest book to you, turn to page 52, post the 5th sentence as your status. Don't mention the title. Copy the rules as part of your post.

Oh, well. Let's see. Nearest book is--

Wait. This one doesn't have sentences. Okay. Next nearest book!

"Cicero is referring to the decline of of Roman moral values that supposedly began in the days of Scipio Aemilianus, 185/4-129 B.C."

I was a lot better at this game before all of my fiction started to be kept on my phone. (I'd give you the equivalent from the first book that pulls up on my Kindle app, except that I don't know how I'd count pages, and on a cell phone screen there often aren't five whole sentences on a page anyway.)

Oh, and for reference, the fifth...sentence-like item on page 52 of the first book I grabbed:

ἄνα [ἄνα], voc. of ἄναξ, king, Ζεῦ ἄνα Hom.

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Have some more Cicero! There's a gap in the narrative here, because there's a gap in the assigned chapters; we're skipping over some boring bits in class. So if things don't make sense, it's because of that.

...ahahaha. No, if things don't make sense, it's probably because I've rendered them awkwardly or incorrectly, and because there's a lack of overall context for the case at hand. And because it's hard to tell, without better knowledge of word connotation, when Cicero is being outright sarcastic, slightly sardonic, or just obfuscating wildly to cover up a weak argument.

( Now let's talk about why the prosecutor's arguments sucked! Also, Roman frats. )