nihil, etc.: of course ironical. quid? ego, etc.: Cicero gives his own experience as an example of Clodius's violent way of acting. diem, etc.: example of legal proceedings which Cicero says, ironically, he avoided by fleeing from the city: the first phrase (diem dixerat) refers to a notice of an accusation before the public assembly; the second (multam inrogarat), to a bill for a fine; the third (actionem perduellionis), to an action on a capital charge before the comitia centuriata. servorum, etc.: the facts, as opposed to the ironical statement that precedes. Cicero had really to fear, not judicial proceedings instituted by Clodius, but mob violence instigated by him.
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