The Failed Justification

Translation

He added accusations sought from further back in time, that she had hoped for a sharing of supreme power, and that the praetorian cohorts would swear allegiance to a woman, and (for) the same disgrace of the Senate and people, and when she had been thwarted, in her hatred, she had advised against giving largesse to the army and a monetary gift to the senators and plebs and had contrived danger for distinguished men. With how much effort on his part had it been achieved to prevent her from entering the Senate house and giving replies to foreign races. With an indirect attack of Claudius's times also, he transferred all the scandals of that rule onto his mother, relating that she had been destroyed thanks to the good fortune of the public. For he even related the shipwreck: but who could be found so stupid as to believe that it had been an accident? Or that one person had been sent with a weapon by a shipwrecked woman to break through the cohorts and fleets of the emperor? Therefore, it was no longer Nero, whose bestiality was surpassing everyone's complaints, but Seneca (who) was in bad repute, because he had written the confession with a speech of such a kind.