Calumniae non temere credundum

And if the story of Palamedes is true, the most sensible of the Greeks and the best of them in other ways stands convicted of having, through envy, framed a plot and an ambush to trap a kinsman and a friend, who had sailed away from home to front the same peril as he[*](Odysseus trapped Palamedes by getting a forged letter from Priam hidden in his tent and then pretending to discover it.); so true is it that to err in this direction is inborn in all mankind.