ac multi et nostra et patrum maiorumque memoria, iudices, summi homines et clarissimi cives fuerunt, quorum cum adulescentiae cupiditates defervissent, eximiae virtutes firmata iam aetate exstiterunt.
- multi describing homines and clarissimi
- memoria — ablative location — memoria, memoriae, fem 1dc
- patrum genitive - pater, patris
- maiorum — noun: maior, maioris 3dc masc — OR — comparative adj: maior, maioris. In this case it is the first usage.
And many, in the memory of us and our fathers and our ancestors, jurors, were very great men and very distinguished citizens, when they had cooled off from their young wishes, they had brought into existence outstanding virtues, now having been proven by age.
ex quibus neminem mihi libet nominare; vosmet vobiscum recordamini.
- -met: an intensifier of substantive and less frequently adjective personal pronouns
It pleases me to name no one from them; you remember them with yourselves.
nolo enim cuiusquam fortis atque inlustris viri ne minimum quidem erratum cum maxima laude coniungere.
For I don't want to join not even the smallest wrong with the great praise of any strong person and illustrious man.
quod si facere vellem, multi a me summi atque ornatissimi viri praedicarentur, quorum partim nimia libertas in adulescentia, partim profusa luxuries, magnitudo aeris alieni, sumptus, libidines nominarentur, quae multis postea virtutibus obtecta adulescentiae qui vellet excusatione defenderet.
- luxuries — luxuries, luxuriei 5dc
- quae — nt, referring to things of mixed gender in the plural (or, I guess, things of any gender in the plural) would default to neuter. By contrast, referring to people of mixed gender would default to masculine.
- adulescentiae ... excusatione dative
If I wished to do this, many great and very decorated men would be declared by me, the excessive liberty in youth of a part of them, the excessive luxury of a part, the size, cost, desires of bronze of the rest, would be named, which (covered by many afterward virtues) anyone (who would wish for a youthful excuse) could defend.