Quarum (gentium) obsides pretio quaesitos pueros
venustiores, quod cultius habuerat, libidine hujusmodi
arsisse 'pro certo' habetur. De Caes. 41
Had not the depraved taste of Constans been publicly avowed, the elder Victor, who held a considerable office in his brother's reign, would not have asserted it in such positive terms.