Sed principio litterarum veneratus deos ut consilia sua rei publicae prosperarent, modica de moribus adulescentis neque in falsum aucta rettulit.
Now, however, after opening his letter with a prayer that Heaven would prosper his counsels to the good of the realm, he devoted a few sentences, free from false embellishments, to the character of the youth:
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