An uti rem familiarem suam meo adhortatu pleramque filiis condonasset, quae nihil illis ante me maritum fuerat largita, mihi <nihil> quicquam impertiret? O gratum veneficium dicam an ingratum beneficium! An ut testamento, quod irata filio scribebat, filium potius, cui offensa erat, quam me, cui devincta, heredem relinqueret? Hoc quidem multis cantaminibus difficile impetravi.
Was it that at my urging she should make most of her own property over to her sons, when she had made them no present before our marriage, and should allow me nothing at all? Gratitude for sorcery, shall I call it, or ingratitude for kindness? Or was it that she should write her will while angry with her son, and yet she should make an heir of her son, with whom she had quarreled, rather than of me, to whom she was devoted? Even with many spells, it was hard to persuade her of that.
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