C. etiam Cosconium Servilia lege reum, propter plurima et evidentissima facinora sine ulla dubitatione nocentem, Valerii Valentini accusatoris eius recitatum in iudicio carmen, quo puerum praetextatum et ingenuam virginem a se corruptam poetico ioco significaverat, erexit, si quidem iudices iniquum rati sunt eum victorem dimittere qui palmam non ex alio ferre, sed de se dare merebatur.
C. Cosconius was charged under the Servilian law, guilty beyond a doubt by reason of many fully evident criminal acts. He was put on his feet by a poem of his prosecutor Valerius Valentinus recited in court, in which by way of a literary joke Valerius had intimated that a boy under age and a free-born girl had been seduced by himself. The jury thought it improper to send away victorious a man who deserved not to win victory over somebody else but to yield the same over himself.
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