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castigabat quidam filium suum quod paulo sumptuosius equos et canes emeret. |
A man was telling his son off because he was buying horses and dogs a little too extravagantly in his opinion. |
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huic ego iuvene digresso dixi: |
When the young man had left, I said to him: |
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'heus tu, nimquamne fecisti, quod a patre corripi posset? |
'Hey you! have you never done anything which could be critised by your father? |
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" fecisti" dico. |
"have you done?" I say. |
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non iterdum facis quod filius tuus, si repente pater ille tu filius, pari gravitate reprehendat? |
Do you not sometimes do the sort of thing which your son, if he suddenly became the father and you became the son, would scold you for with equal harshness? |
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non omnes homines aliquo errore ducuntur? |
Are not all men led astray by some fault? |
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non hic in illo sibi, in hoc alius indulget?' |
Doesn't this man indulge himself that thing and another man in this thing?' |
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haec ego, admonitus exemplo immodicae severitatis, tibi pro amore mutuo scripsi, ne quando tu quoque filium tuum acerbius duriusque tractares. |
Warned by this example of excessive severity, I have written these things for you, out of mutual affection, so that you may not at some time also treat your son too sternly and too harshly. |
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cogita et illum puerum esse et te fuisse, |
Consider both that he is a boy and that you were a boy, |
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atque hoc quod es pater ita utere ut memineris et hominem esse te et homines patrem. |
and use the fact that you are a father in such a way that you keep in mind both that you are a man and the father of a man. |
