De Beneficiis

L. Annaeus Seneca

Divus Augustus filiam...relegavit et flagitia principalis domus in publicum emisit...forum ipsum ac rostra, ex quibus pater legem de adulteriis tulerat, filiae in stupra placuisse, cotidianum ad Marsyam concursum, cum ex adultera in quaestuariam versa ius omnis licentiae sub ignoto adultero peteret.

The deified Augustus banished his daughter...and made public the scandals of the imperial house...that the very forum and the rostrum, from which her father had proposed a law against adultery, had been chosen by the daughter for her debaucheries, that she had daily resorted to the statue of Marsyas, and, laying aside the role of adulteress, there sold her favours, and sought the right to every indulgence with even an unknown paramour.

Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from L. Annaeus Seneca: De Beneficiis (Volume III. Moral Essays) , Loeb Classical Library Vol. 310, translated by John W. Basore, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, © 1935, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. The Loeb Classical Library ® is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College.

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