peregerat iam Torquatus severi et religiosi iudicis partes, satis factum erat rei publicae, habebat ultionem Macedonia, potuit tam verecundo filii obitu patris inflecti rigor: at ille neque exsequiis adulescentis interfuit et, cum maxime funus eius duceretur, consulere se volentibus vacuas aures accommodavit: videbat enim se in eo atrio consedisse in quo imperiosi illius Torquati severitate conspicua imago posita erat, prudentissimoque viro succurrebat effigies maiorum [suorum] cum titulis suis idcirco in prima parte aedium poni solere ut eorum virtutes posteri non solum legerent sed etiam imitarentur.
Torquatus had now fulfilled the role of a stern and scrupulous judge, the public interest had been satisfied, Macedonia had its revenge; the fathers rigour might have been softened by his sons remorseful end. But he did not take part in the young mans obsequies and at the very time of the funeral he gave his attention to persons wishing to consult him. For he saw that within the hall where he sat was placed the mask of Torquatus the Imperious, conspicuous in its severity, and as a very wise man he bethought himself that the effigies of a mans ancestors with their labels are placed in the first part of the house in order that their descendants should not only read of their virtues but imitate them.
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