Metellus quoque Celer stuprosae mentis acer poenitor exstitit, Cn. Sergio Silo promissorum matri familiae nummorum gratia diem ad populum dicendo eumque hoc uno crimine damnando: non enim factum tunc sed animus in quaestionem deductus est, plusque voluisse peccare nocuit quam non peccasse profuit.
Metellus Celer too showed himself a stern chastiser of lascivious intent by summoning C. Sergius Silus to trial before the people on account of money promised to a housewife and convicting him on this sole charge. It was not an act but a state of mind that was then brought to the enquiry, and the wish to do wrong hurt more than the absence of wrongdoing helped.
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