19 beardless hermaphrodites, bearded pathic-adulterers[1967]
20 What is it, if you possess a hundred or two hundred thousand
21 † ... what we seek in this matter ... deceived ... guarded against[1968]
22 ... here like a mouse-trap laid, ... and like a scorpion with tail erect....
23 ... and what great sorrows and afflictions you have now endured.[1969]
24 † it was better you should be born, ... like a beast or ass.
25 ... on the ground, in the dung, stalls, manure, and swine-dung.[1970]
26 ... as much as my fancy delights to draw from the Muses' fountain.
27 ... and that our poems alone out of many are now praised.
28 Now, Gaius, since rebuking, you attack us in turn....[1971]