cuius rei deformitas sic homines offendit ut cum alioqui vir egregius haberetur, comitiisque praetoriis candidatus in campum L. Paullo avo et P. Africano avunculo nixus descendisset, repulsa inde abiret notatus: nam ut privatim semper continentiam probabant ita publice maxima cura splendoris habita est.
This shabby proceeding gave such offence that although he otherwise passed for an excellent person and went down to the Campus as a candidate at the praetorian elections relying on his grandfather L. Paullus and his maternal uncle P. Africanus, he left it with the stigma of rejection. For while they always approved of private frugality, publicly they set much store on a handsome show
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