TRANSLATION OF SECTION 69

At this point should we even wonder if that bogus box has given rise to a filthy story? Everything seems to fit with a woman of that sort. People have heard the story and it's the talk of the town. Gentlemen, you have long understood what I want to say - or rather, what I don't want to say.

If it is true, Caelius certainly was not responsible. What did it have to do with him? Perhaps it was the work of some young fellow with more wit than modesty. If, however, it has been made up, it is a falsehood lacking in decency certainly, but not lacking in humour. It certainly would never have won approval in people's thoughts and conversation did not every sort of pornographic tale appear to square precisely with that lady.