Confiteor enim, quod mihi obiectum est, eum, postquam uxorem duxerit, a compecti fide descivisse ac derepente animi mutatum quod antea nimio studio festinarat pari pertinacia prohibitum isse, denique ne matrimonium nostrum coalesceret, quidvis pati, quidvis facere paratum fuisse, quamquam omnis illa tam foeda animi mutatio et suscepta contra matrem simultas non ipsi vitio vertenda sit, sed socero eius eccilli Herennio Rufino, qui unum neminem in terris viliorem se aut improbiorem aut inquinatiorem reliquit.
For I admit something that has been alleged against me: that after he had taken a wife, he broke the terms of our agreement and, suddenly changing his mind, began to prevent with no less pertinacity what he had previously urged with great energy; in short, that he would have been ready to undergo or do anything to prevent the consummation of our marriage. And yet all this shameful change of mind, and the quarrel he began with his mother, should not be blamed on him, but rather on his father-in-law here, Herennius Rufinus, who has absolutely no equal at all on earth for vileness, immorality and depravity.
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