Sed enim malitia praecoqui puerum quis non aversetur atque oderit, cum videat velut monstrum quoddam prius robustum scelere quam tempore, ante nocentem quam potentem, viridi pueritia, cana malitia, vel potius hoc magis noxium, quod cum venia perniciosus est et nondum poenae, iam iniuriae sufficit'iniuriae dico? Immo enim sceleri adversum parentem nefando, immani, impetibili.
but who would not shun and abhor a boy prematurely wicked, when one sees a sort of prodigy hardened by crime and not yet by time, dangerous and not yet adult, with the greenness of youth and the gray hairs of malice? Or rather a boy all the more dangerous because pardonably pernicious, not yet of an age to do time but already of an age to do harm? Did I say to do harm? No, to commit an unspeakable, monstrous, insufferable crime against his parent.
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