But how much safer is the traffic among[ women] of the second rate! I mean the freed- women: after which Sallustius is not less mad, than he who commits adultery. But if he had a mind to be good and generous, as far as his estate and reason would direct him, and as far as a man might be liberal with moderation; he would give a sufficiency, not what would bring upon himself ruin and infamy. However, he hugs himself in this one[ consideration]; this he delights in, this he extols:" I meddle with no matron." Just as Marsaeus, the lover of Origo, he who gives his paternal estate and seat to an actress, says," I never meddle with other men 's wives. "But you have with actresses, you have with common strumpets: whence your reputation derives a greater perdition, than your estate. What, is it abundantly sufficient to avoid the person, and not the[ vice] which is universally noxious? To lose one 's good name, to squander a father 's effects, is in all cases an evil. What is the difference[ then, with regard to yourself,] whether you sin with the person of a matron, a maiden, or a prostitute? 