Ac si iam ex patribus Albini aut Bestiae quaeri posset mene an illos ex se gigni maluerint, quid responsuros creditis, nisi sese liberos quam optumos voluisse? Quod si iure me despiciunt, faciant idem maioribus suis, quibus, uti mihi, ex virtute nobilitas coepit.
And if the fathers of Albinus and Bestia could now be asked whether they would have preferred to sire me or those men, what do you suppose they would reply, except that they desired the best possible children? But if they rightly look down on me, let them do likewise in the case of their own forefathers, whose nobility began, as does mine, from personal merit.
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