Direct quotation
My position is a bedbug — as you say: alive it causes trouble, and crushed it gives off a stench. You…
My position is a bedbug — as you say: alive it causes trouble, and crushed it gives off a stench.
You would be ashamed to crush me by defeating me.
As though defeated, I have fled to filthy places, and you recoil from following and killing me.
Because you are forced to speak about the sexual organs, your modesty, like a temple keeper, has excluded from free expression the parts of your argument that would crush or destroy me.
Latin
Sententiam meam cimicem - dicis - qui ut molestiam vivus, sic fetorem praestat attritus
verecunderis
vincendo me atterere
tamquam victus ad loca
caenosa confugerim, exhorreas consequi atque perimere: quia videlicet partes disputationis tuae, quibus atterendus vel perimendus sum, quoniam de pudendis loqui cogeris, velut quidam aedituus pudor tuus a verborum
libertate submovit