Quippe ipse egens, nudus CCCC milibus nummum a creditore acceptis filiam dotavit; Pudentilla locuples femina trecentis milibus dotis fuit contenta, et maritum habet et multis saepe et ingentibus dotibus spretis inani nomine tantulae dotis contentum, ceterum praeter uxorem suam nihil computantem, omnem supellectilem cunctasque divitias in concordia coniugii et multo amore ponentem.
For, needy and destitute as he is, he personally borrowed four hundred thousand sesterces from a creditor for his daughters dowry, while Pudentilla, a lady of wealth, was satisfied with a dowry of three hundred thousand. And she has a husband who often turned down many large dowries and was satisfied with such a small, merely nominal one; other than that, he considered his wife to be all that counted, and that all appurtenances and all riches consisted in marital concord and mutual love.
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