Aut cur sisti postulabas tantam familiam? Magiae accusans de XV servis denuntiasti: quid, si de vi accusares, quot tandem servos postulares? Sciunt ergo aliquid XV servi et occultum est? An occultum non est et magicum est? Alterum horum fatearis necesse est: aut inlicitum non fuisse in quo tot conscios non timuerim, aut si inlicitum fuit, scire tot conscios non debuisse.
Otherwise, why did you demand that I produce so large a group of slaves? For a charge of magic you had fifteen slaves summoned: why, supposing you were charging me with violence, however many slaves would you be requesting? So is there something fifteen slaves know, and yet it is a secret? Or it is not a secret, and yet involves magic? One of these two alternatives you will have to admit: either it was nothing illegal, since I was not afraid to have so many accessories to it, or it was illegal, in which case so many accessories should not have known about it.
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