Sophie BC 13
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[ 13 ] nam quid ea memorem quae nisi iīs quī vīdēre nēminī crēdibilia sunt , ā prīvātīs complūribus subvorsōs montīs , maria cōnstrāta esse ? 2 quibus mihi videntur lūdibriō fuisse dīvitiae ; quippe quās honestē habēre licēbat abūtī per turpitūdinem properābant . 3 sed lubīdō stuprī , gāneae , cēterīque cultūs nōn minor incesserat : virī muliebria patī , mulierēs pudīcitiam in prōpatulō habēre ; vēscendī causā terrā marīque omnia exquīrere , dormīre prius quam somnī cupīdō esset , nōn famem aut sitim , neque frīgus neque lassitūdinem opperīrī , sed ea omnia luxū antecapere . 4 haec iuventūtem , ubi familiārēs opēs dēfēcerant , ad facinora incendēbant . 5 animus imbūtus malīs artibus haud facile lubīdinibus carēbat ; eō profūsius omnibus modīs quaestuī atque sūmptuī dēditus erat .
Why
should
I
recall
that
numerous
private
individuals
undermined
mountains
and
paved
over
the
seas
-
things
which
are
credible
to
no
one
except
those
who
have
seen
them
?
To
such
men
,
it
seems
to
me
,
their
riches
were
a
plaything
:
when
they
could
have
held
them
with
honour
,
they
hurried
to
misuse
them
disgracefully
.
But
the
lust
which
had
arisen
for
illicit
sex
,
gluttony
and
the
other
refinements
was
no
less
:
men
took
the
passive
role
of
women
,
women
made
their
chastity
openly
available
;
everywhere
,
by
land
and
by
sea
,
was
ransacked
for
the
sake
of
feeding
;
they
slept
before
there
could
be
any
desire
for
slumber
:
they
did
not
wait
for
hunger
or
thirst
nor
for
cold
nor
tiredness
but
in
their
luxuriousness
anticipated
them
all
.
It
was
these
things
which
inflamed
young
men
to
crime
when
their
private
wealth
failed
:
a
mentality
saturated
in
wicked
practices
did
not
easily
forgo
its
lusts
,
so
its
comprehensive
dedication
to
profit
and
expenditure
was
all
the
more
prodigal
.