Verum haec similiaque tum etiam ut coercenda, mox cavebantur, et nulli vel admodum pauci, in his versati flagitiis, vigori publico insultarunt, sed tempore secuto longaeva impunitas nutrivit immania, usque eo grassante licentia, ut imitatus Hilarinum quidam senator, servumque suum modo non per syngrapham arcanis piacularibus inducendum, commisisse doctori malarum artium confutatus, supplicium redimeret, opima mercede, ut crebrior fama vulgarat.
But efforts were still made to check these and similar offences, and none, or at any rate very few, who were engaged in such abominations defied the public diligence. But later, long-continued impunity nourished these monstrous offences, and lawlessness went so far that a certain senator followed the example of Hilarinus, and was convicted of having apprenticed a slave of his almost by a written contract to a teacher of evil practices to be initiated into criminal secrets; but he bought escape from the death penalty, as current gossip asserted, for a large sum of money.
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