Omnes hoc, antequam fieret, cognovimus, et potui denuntiatione impedire, nisi scirem mendacium tam stultum potius Aemiliano, qui frustra redimebat, quam mihi, qui merito contemnebam, obfuturum.
All of us knew about this before it happened, and I could have prevented it with a summons, except that I knew that such a foolish lie would injure Aemilianus, who wasted money buying it, rather than me, who rightly despised it.
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