Nonne vos puditum est haec crimina tali viro audiente tam adseverate obiectare, frivola et inter se repugnantia simul promere et utraque tamen reprehendere? At non contraria accusastis? Peram et baculum ob austeritatem, carmina et speculum ob hilaritatem, unum servum ut deparci, tris libertos ut profusi, praeterea eloquentiam Graecam, patriam barbaram?
Were you not ashamed to hurl these charges so insistently in the hearing of such a man, to make two frivolous and mutually incompatible charges simultaneously and yet to find fault on both grounds? For were your accusations not contradictory? A bag and a stick to portray me as a puritan, poems and a mirror as a dandy, one slave as a miser, three freedmen as a spendthrift, and after that eloquence in speaking Greek and a barbarous origin?
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