Sustineo enim non modo meam, verum etiam philosophiae defensionem, cuia magnitudo vel minimam reprehensionem pro maximo crimine aspernatur, propter quod paulo prius patroni Aemiliani multa in me proprie conficta et alia communiter in philosophos sueta ab imperitis mercennaria loquacitate effutierunt.
It is not only my defense that I am undertaking but Philosophys too, whose exalted status refuses to accept even the slightest aspersion as if it were the gravest of charges. I do so because Aemilianus lawyers, with their paid loquacity, a little while ago spouted many things, some of them made up against me personally, and others that ignorant people tend to aim at philosophers collectively.
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