Macte esto, vir amplissime, fascibus partis dote meritorum; quorum ut titulis apicibusque potiare non maternos reditus, non avitas largitiones, non uxorias gemmas, non paternas pecunias numeravisti, quia tibi e contrario apud principis domum inspecta sinceritas, spectata sedulitas, admissa sodalitas laudi fuere.
Congratulations, my noble friend, on the office you have won through the dower of your deserts. To win its titles and glories you have not expended a mothers rent-roll, a grandfathers bounty, a wifes jewels or a fathers capital; but on the contrary you have won distinction in an emperors household by well-tested honesty, well-attested assiduity and an approved claim to intimacy.
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