Ac ne id quidem de professo audet, verum postera die dat libellum nomine privigni mei Sicini Pudentis admodum pueri et adscribit se ei assistere, novo more per alium lacessendi, scilicet ut obtentu eius aetatulae ipse insimulationis falsae non plecteretur.
Even that, though, he does not dare to do openly; no, on the next day he laid a charge in the name of my stepson Sicinius Pudens, a very young boy, and also stated that he is supporting him, no doubt so that, hiding behind Pudens early youth, he himself would not be punished for his false insinuations.
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