namque per rei familiaris damna vacuatus ut primum intellegere coepit et retractare, quantum de bonusculis avitis paternisque sumptuositas domesticae Charybdis abligurrisset, quamquam sero resipiscens, attamen tandem veluti frenos momordit excussitque cervices atque Ulixeas, ut ferunt, ceras auribus figens fugit adversum vitia surdus meretricii blandimenta naufragii puellamque, prout decuit, intactam vir laudandus in matrimonium adsumpsit, tam moribus natalibusque summatem quam facultatis principalis.
As soon as he found himself reduced to indigence by the inroads on his purse and began to understand and consider how much of the modest fortune from his father and grandfather had been swallowed up by the extravagance of that domestic Charybdis, he came to his senses'a late repentance indeed, but now at long last he took the bit in his teeth, shook his shoulders clear of the yoke, and, like Ulysses in the story, put wax in his ears and so, deaf to evil temptations, he fled the enticements of moral shipwreck with a mistress. Very properly, he has now become a respectable husband by marrying a girl of unblemished reputation, lofty in character and birth, and also possessed of a princely fortune.
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