Regulum subversa Crassorum et Orfiti domus in summum odium extulerat: sponte [e xsc] accusationem subisse iuvenis admodum, nec depellendi periculi sed in spem potentiae videbatur; et Sulpicia Praetextata Crassi uxor quattuorque liberi, si cognosceret senatus, ultores aderant.
Regulus had made himself most bitterly hated for causing the downfall of the houses of the Crassi and of Orfitus: he seemed voluntarily to have taken the accusation on himself though quite a youth, not to ward off danger from himself, but because he hoped thereby to gain power; and Sulpicia Pratextata, the wife of Crassus, and her four children were also there to ask vengeance, if the senate took up the case.
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