nam quamquam pruritu laborat sermonis inhonesti, tamen patronorum est praecipue cavendus arcanis, quorum est laudator in prosperis, delator in dubiis; et si ad occulta familiarium publicanda temporis ratio sollicitet, mox per hunc Spartacum quaecumque sunt clausa franguntur quaeque obserata reserantur; ita quod, quas domorum nequiverit machinis apertae simultatis impetere, cuniculis clandestinae proditionis impugnat.
For although he suffers from an itching for depraved talk, still he is most dangerous when taken into the confidence of his patrons, being a flatterer in prosperity and a tell-tale in time of jeopardy; and if circumstances incite him to spread abroad the secrets of his intimates, all bars are broken down and all bolts unbolted by this Spartacus; nay, if he fails to batter any families by the engines of open enmity, he will assail them with the mines of secret treachery.
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