a quo appellati tribuni, cum de stupro nihil negaret, sed sponsionem se facere paratum diceret quod adulescens ille palam atque aperte corpore quaestum factitasset, intercessionem suam interponere noluerunt.
He appealed to the Tribunes, not denying the act but declaring his readiness to wager that the young man in question had openly and without concealment practised prostitution.
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