hunc olim perorantem et rhetorica sedilia plausibili oratione frangentem socer eloquens ultro in familiam patriciam adscivit, licet illi ad hoc, ut sileam de genere vel censu, aetas venustas pudor patrocinarentur.
Long ago, when he was practising declamation and bringing down the house with his much-applauded oratory, his eloquent father-in-law was so carried away that he admitted him into his patrician family'although it is true that the young mans age, good looks, and modesty, not to mention his lineage and his means, helped to further this consummation.
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