None might contract any marriage without first purchasing their consent with a bribe.

Moreover, they extended their abominable and abandoned lust not only to virgins, but to the multitude of matrons indiscriminately.

Thus a twofold madness incited this mixture of wantonness and frenzy.

Guests and strangers were proffered not shelter but revilings.

All these maddening mockeries did this insolent and wanton crew devise, and thus under a boy-king freedom fostered licence.