70. 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.