Letter 97 — On the Degeneracy of the Age (§3)

“The charge involved less sin than the acquittal; for the defendant on a charge of adultery parcelled out the adulteries, and was not sure of his own safety until he had made the jury criminals like himself. All this was done at the trial in which Cato gave evidence, although that was his sole part therein. I shall quote Cicero’s actual words, because the facts are so bad as to pass belief:”