How much he was guilty of a most foul intercourse with women even of the first quality,
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appeared very plainly by the death of one Mallonia, who, being brought to his bed, but resolutely refusing to comply with his lust, he gave her up to the common informers. Even when she was upon her trial, he frequently called out to her, and asked her, "Do you repent?" until she, quitting the court, went home, and stabbed herself; openly upbraiding the vile old lecher for his gross obscenity;
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hence there was an allusion to him in a farce, which was acted at the next public sports, and was received with great applause, and became a common topic of ridicule:
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that the old goat
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Tiberius. Suetonius. ed. J. Eugene Reed, Alexander Thomson (Translator). Philadelphia. 1883.
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