Nam ut Equitium, Firmo Piceno monstrum veniens, relatum iam in huiusce libri superiore parte, praeteream, cuius in amplectendo Ti. Graccho patre evidens mendacium turbulento vulgi errore, amplissima tribunatus potestate vallatum est, Herophilus, equarius medicus, C. Marium septiens consulem avum sibi vindicando <ita se> extulit ut et coloniae se veteranorumcomplures et municipia splendida collegiaque fere omnia patronum adoptarent.
For to say nothing of Equitius, the monster from Firmum in Picenum, whom I mentioned in an earlier part of this book, whose patent falsehood in embracing Ti. Gracchus as his father was defended by the unruly error of the common folk and the large power of the Tribunate, Herophilus, a horse doctor, claimed C. Marius, seven times Consul, as his grandfather and so puffed himself up that a number of colonies of veterans and distinguished municipalities and almost all the clubs adopted him as their patron.
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