Hascine gratias bonus filius matri rependis ob datam vitam, ob acquisitam hereditatem, ob XIIII annorum longas alimonias? Hiscine te patruus disciplinis erudivit, ut, si compertum habeas filios tibi similes futuros, non audeas ducere uxorem? Est ille poetae versus non ignotus: odi puerulos praecoqui sapientia.
Is this the gratitude that a good son shows to the mother who gave you life, who increased your inheritance, who raised you for fourteen long years? Are these the lessons your uncle taught you, so that you would feel certain of having sons like yourself and would not dare to marry? There is a well known line of the poet, I dislike boys prematurely wise,
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