§4.1Hic cum aetate iam provectus esset, sine ullo morbo lumina oculorum amisit.
When he was already advanced in age, he lost the sight of his eyes without any disease.
quam calamitatem ita moderate tulit, ut neque eum querentem quisquam audierit neque eo minus privatis publicisque rebus interfuerit.
He bore this calamity so moderately that no one ever heard him complaining, nor did he on that account participate any less in private and public affairs.
§4.2veniebat autem in theatrum, cum ibi concilium populi haberetur, propter valetudinem vectus iumentis iunctis, atque ita de vehiculo quae videbantur dicebat.
Moreover, he used to come into the theater, when an assembly of the people was being held there, carried by a team of draught-animals on account of his health, and thus from his vehicle he would speak what seemed best.
neque hoc illi quisquam tribuebat superbiae: nihil enim umquam neque insolens neque gloriosum ex ore eius exiit.
Nor did anyone attribute this to him as pride; for nothing either insolent or boastful ever came out of his mouth.
§4.3qui quidem, cum suas laudes audiret praedicari, numquam aliud dixit quam se in ea re maxime dis agere gratias atque habere, quod, cum Siciliam recreare constituissent, tum se potissimum ducem esse voluissent.
Indeed, when he heard his own praises being proclaimed, he never said anything else than that in this matter he gave and felt the greatest thanks to the gods, because, when they had decided to restore Sicily, they had wished that he especially should be the leader.
§4.4nihil enim rerum humanarum sine deorum numine geri putabat; itaque suae domi sacellum Automatias constituerat idque sanctissime colebat.
For he thought that nothing of human affairs was carried on without the divine will of the gods; and so he had established a shrine of Automatia at his own home, and worshipped it most sacredly.