se parentum adversus suspectos liberos moderatione L. Gellius, omnibus honoribus ad censuram defunctus, cum gravissima crimina de filio, in novercam commissum stuprum et parricidium cogitatum, propemodum explorata haberet, non tamen ad vindictam continuo procucurrit, sed paene universo senatu adhibito in consilium, expositis suspicionibus, defendendi se adulescenti potestatem fecit, inspectaque diligentissime causa absolvit eum cum consilii tum etiam sua sententia.
of moderation of parents towards suspected children L. Gellius, who had held all offices up to and including the Censorship, was almost certain that his son had been guilty of very serious crimes, namely adultery with his stepmother and plotting his fathers murder. He did not, however, rush to punish straight away, but took almost the entire senate into his council and having set out his suspicions gave the young man the opportunity to defend himself. After a very thorough examination of the case, he acquitted him by vote of the council and also his own.
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