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"You are then of the opinion," the Emperor asked, "that there never was a guilty Vestal?" "No," Brinnaria replied judicially, "I don't go as far as that. Varonilla was probably depraved and with her the two Oculatas. I don't think their suicides prove anything against them, for a woman is just as likely to hang herself because she despairs of a fair hearing as because she is conscious of guilt.
Suppose I am causing disaster to the Empire? I keep thinking all that. Do you wonder that I think of suicide, of hanging myself, like the two Oculatas?" "My child!" Aurelius cut in. "You have not done anything that justifies your comparing yourself to the Oculata sisters." "We'll come back to that later," Brinnaria replied. "Just now let us stick to the point.
And I wouldn't believe it of you if you were twice your age." "Oh," said Brinnaria, "I haven't acted like Caparronia and the two Oculatas, and I shouldn't if I were never so much left to myself. But you said yourself that Vesta can read my thoughts and I knew that without your telling me so.
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