Nec aliter sensit Q. Antistius Vetus repudiando uxorem quod illam in publico cum quadam libertina vulgari secreto loquentem viderat: nam, ut ita dicam, incunabulis et nutrimentis culpae, non ipsa commotus culpa citeriorem delicto praebuit ultionem, ut potius caveret iniuriam quam vindicaret.
Nor did Q. Antistius Vetus feel otherwise. He divorced his wife because he had seen her in public talking tte--tte with a certain common freedwoman. He was actuated by the cradle, so to speak, and aliments of guilt, not guilt itself, and furnished punishment in advance of offence, so as to guard against injury rather than avenge it.
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