Quae si omnia palam et dilucide ostendero, tunc denique te, Claudi Maxime, et omnis qui adsunt contestabor puerum illum Sicinium Pudentem privignum meum, cuius obtentu et voluntate a patruo eius accusor, nuperrime curae meae eruptum, postquam frater eius Pontianus et natu maior et moribus melior diem suum obiit, atque ita in me ac matrem suam nefarie efferatum, non mea culpa, desertis liberalibus studiis ac repudiata omni disciplina, scelestis accusationis huius rudimentis patruo Aemiliano potius quam fratri Pontiano similem futurum.
If I prove all of this openly and convincingly, then, Claudius Maximus, I will finally assert before you and before all those present that the boy there, Sicinius Pudens my stepson, under whose cover and with whose assent his uncle is prosecuting me, very recently broke away from my tutelage when his brother Pontianus, who was both his senior in years and his superior in character, had passed away; and it was this, not any fault of mine, that threw him into a wicked rage against me and his very own mother, so that he gave up humane studies, shook off all control, and has taken his first villainous lessons by this prosecution, sure as he is to resemble his uncle Aemilianus rather than his brother Pontianus.
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