ille vero etiam in foro non erubuit P. Scipionem, socerum suum, legibus <ob>noxium quas ipse tulerat, in maxima quidem reorum illustrium ruina muneris loco a iudicibus deposcere, maritalis lecti blanditiis statum rei publicae temerando.
But even in the Forum he did not blush to ask the jury to acquit his father-in-law P. Scipio as a present to himself when Scipio was answerable to the laws that Pompey himself had carried, and that too when a great many illustrious defendants were coming to grief. The blandishments of the nuptial bed made him violate the stability of the commonwealth.
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