in spem secundam nepotes pronepotesque, tertio gradu primores civitatis scripserat, plerosque invisos sibi, sed iactantia gloriaque ad posteros.
As legatees in the second degree he mentioned his grandchildren and great-grand-children; in the third place, the prominent nobles'an ostentatious bid for the applause of posterity, as he detested most of them.
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