sed, ut comperi, erubescebat iam etiam tunc vir serius et formae dote placuisse, quippe cui merito ingenii suffecisset adamari.
But I am informed that, even at that early stage, he was serious-minded enough to blush at the thought that his physical appearance had commended him, for he would have been quite content to be loved for his intellectual worth.
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