Avus modicum reliquerat, mater sestertium quadragies possidebat, ex quo sane aliquantam pecuniam nullis tabulis, sed, ut aequum erat, mera fide acceptam filiis debebat.
His grandfather had left a modest sum, his mother possessed four million sesterces; from that she owed her sons a certain amount, certainly, though the loan was not documented but made simply on faith, as was right and proper.
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