ego vero non tantum insignibus vestris, quae tu hactenus quanto liberius, tanto inpatientius praestolabare (quamquam his quoque granditer), quantum concordia fruor; quam parem nostris suisque liberis in posterum exopto, votis in commune deposcens, ut sicut nos utramque familiam nostram praefectoriam nancti etiam patriciam divino favore reddidimus, ita ipsi quam suscipiunt patriciam faciant consularem.
But for my part, much as I rejoice in the honour to your family, to which you yourself have all the time been looking forward with equal frankness and impatience, I rejoice still more in our mutual affection. I fervently hope that there will be a like feeling in days to come between our children and his, and I earnestly pray for both households alike that, just as we found our families praefectorian and by the favour of Heaven made them also patrician, so they in their turn, starting with a patrician family, may make it a consular one.
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