Et sane habet in istis quod sibi plaudat, Est enim omnium litium depector, omnium falsorum commentator, omnium simulationum architectus, omnium malorum seminarium, nec non idem libidinum ganearumque locus, lustrum, lupanar; iam inde ab ineunte aevo cunctis probris palam notus, olim in pueritia, priusquam isto calvitio deformaretur, emasculatoribus suis ad omnia infanda morigerus, mox in iuventute saltandis fabulis exossis plane et enervis, sed, ut audio, indocta et rudi mollitia.
And certainly he has cause for self-congratulation in all this, since he is the contriver of every lawsuit, the fabricator of every lie, the hand behind every pretense, the seedbed of every wickedness, and at the same time the center, the haunt, the brothel of lecheries and debaucheries, generally known for every vice from his earliest age. As a boy long ago, before that baldness of his ruined his looks, he complied with every unspeakable wish of those who made a eunuch of him; then in his youth he danced ballets like one entirely without sinew or bone, though I hear that he did so like an ignorant and clumsy pansy;
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