Non sum inquit offensus Apri mei disputatione, nec vos offendi decebit, si quid forte aures vestras perstringat, cum sciatis hanc esse eius modi sermonum legem, iudicium animi citra damnum adfectus proferre.
My good friend Apers discourse did not shock me, Messalla replied, and no more must you be shocked by anything that may chance to grate upon your ears. You know that it is the rule in talks of this kind to speak out ones inmost convictions without prejudice to friendly feeling.
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