human
Is any one else, then, a freeman, but he that may live as he pleases? I may live as I please; am not I then a freer man than Brutus? [1455] On this the Stoic (his ear well purged[1456] with biting vinegar) says,
gpt
Your inference is faulty; the rest I admit, but cancel '_I may_,' and '_as I please_.'
human
Since I left the prætor's presence, made my own master by his rod,[1457] why _may_ I not do whatever my inclination dictates, save only what the rubric of Masurius[1458] interdicts?