unde? cur? quando? respondi; quis crimen agnovit? quis detulit? quis probavit? moxque subridens: perge, inquam, amice, nisi molestum est, et tumescentes nomine meo consulere dignare, utrumnam ille delator aut index, qui satiram me scripsisse confinxit, et perscripsisse confinxerit; unde forte sit tutius, si retractabunt, ut superbire desistant.
How so? Why? When? I replied; Who discovered the wrongdoing? Who has informed against me? Who has proved the charge? Then with a smile I added, Go on, my friend, if you dont mind, and be good enough to inquire as from me of those who are making all this stir whether the informer or spy who invented the story that I had composed a satire also invented the addition that I have finished writing it. So if these people will think over it they will perhaps find it safer to give up their insolent conduct.
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