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what a completely idle business, or rather, how shamefully ignominious! This man, I say, who calculates by memory the entire lineage of the horse breed and reports this information with great speed without error—if you were to ask him about the parents of Christ, he does not know, or is even more wretched if he does. If I were to ask him again by what route he arrived at that spectacle, he will confess it was through the brothel, 5 past the naked bodies of prostitutes, through slippery lust, through public disgrace, through vulgar lewdness, through the common shame of all. To say nothing of what he perhaps committed, he nevertheless saw what should not have been committed, and led his eyes toward the spectacle of idolatry through lust: daring, if he could, to take the Holy One with him into the brothel, having been dismissed from the Lord’s house while still carrying the eucharistia Eucharist—this unfaithful man carried the holy body of Christ around among the obscene bodies of harlots, deserving more condemnation for the journey than for the pleasure of the spectacle.

6 But to make the transition now to the shameless wit of the stage, 15 it is shameful to recount what is said, and shameful even to accuse what is done: the tricks of plots, the deceits of adulterers, the unchastity of women, the scurrilous jokes, the sordid parasites, and even the fathers of families themselves wearing the toga formal Roman garment—now acting stupid, now obscene—in everything foolish, and by specific names, shameless. And although no person, regardless of their family or profession, is spared by such wicked speech, yet everyone gathers together for the spectacle. Clearly, it is a common disgrace to take pleasure in either recognizing or learning about such idleness. They run together