huic eram themati scilicet incubaturus id iam agens otii idque habens aevi, quod iuvenem militantemque dictasse praesumptiosum fuisset, publicasse autem periculosum? cui namque grammaticum vel salutanti Calaber ille non dixit:  si mala condiderit in quem quis carmina, ius est iudiciumque?.
So you supposed, did you, that I was likely, after reaching such an age and retiring from active life, to spend pains upon a literary effort which in my young days, when I was in the government service, it would have been audacious for me to have composed and dangerous for me to have published? Who that has even a nodding acquaintance with the schoolmaster has not been told by the poet of Calabria:  If ribald verse besmirch an honest name, The law shall see the offender put to shame?
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