Audes igitur, Aemiliane, dicere male id fieri, quod imperator et censor divus Adrianus fecit et factum memoriae reliquit? Ceterum Maximum quicquam putas culpaturum, quod sciat Platonis exemplo a me factum? Cuius versus quos nunc percensui tanto sanctiores sunt, quanto apertiores, tanto pudicius compositi, quanto simplicius professi; namque haec et id genus omnia dissimulare et occultare peccantis, profiteri et promulgare ludentis est; quippe natura vox innocentiae, silentium maleficio distributa.
I challenge you, Aemilianus, to say that it is wrong to do something that Hadrian, an emperor and a censor, both did and told posterity that he had done? Moreover, do you think Maximus will fault anything that he knows I did with Plato as a precedent? Those lines of his that I repeated just now are all the more innocent for their frankness, all the more chastely written for their open declaration. For to disguise and conceal these things and everything like them shows wrongdoing, to admit and broadcast them shows playfulness, since by natures dispensation speech and innocence, silence and guilt belong together.
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