Ille vires quidem gentis et regni haud falso iactari affirmat, ceterum, qui regnaret, non modo ignobilem esse, sed etiam ultimae sortis; quippe patrem eius, tonsorem vix diurno quaestu propulsantem famem, propter habitum haud indecorum cordi  fuisse reginae.
Porus assured him that the strength of the nation and of the kingdom was not exaggerated, but that the ruler was not only of humble, but of the lowest condition; in fact, his father, a barber whose daily profit barely kept him from starving, because he was not bad looking had  been beloved by the queen.
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