Igitur Galba, adprehensa Pisonis manu, in hunc modum locutus fertur: Si te privatus lege curiata apud pontifices, ut moris est, adoptarem, et mihi egregium erat Cn. Pompei et M. Crassi subolem in penatis meos adsciscere, et tibi insigne Sulpiciae ac Lutatiae decora nobilitati tuae adiecisse:
Then Galba, according to report, took Pisos hand and spoke to this effect: If as a private citizen I were adopting you according to curiate law before the pontifices, as is customary, it were both an honour to me to bring into my house a descendant of Gnaeus Pompey and Marcus Crassus, and a distinction for you to add the glories of the Sulpician and Lutatian houses to your own high rank.
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