Note 070 Quarum (gentium) obsides pretio quaesitos pueros venustiores, quod cultius habuerat, libidine hujusmodi arsisse 'pro certo' habetur. [De Caes. 41] Had not the depraved taste of Constans been publicly avowed, the elder Victor, who held a considerable office in his brother's reign, would not have asserted it in such positive terms.

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Note to Chapter 18 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon