§17.1De pietate autem Attici quid plura commemorem? cum hoc ipsum vere gloriantem audierim in funere matris suae, quam extulit annorum nonaginta, cum ipse esset septem et sexaginta, se numquam cum matre in gratiam redisse, numquam cum sorore fuisse in simultate, quam prope aequalem habebat.
But why should I say more about the filial piety of Atticus? Since I myself heard him truly boasting of this very thing at the funeral of his mother, whom he buried at the age of ninety when he himself was sixty-seven: that he had never been reconciled with his mother, and had never been at variance with his sister, who was nearly of his own age.
§17.2quod est signum aut nullam umquam inter eos querimoniam intercessisse, aut hunc ea fuisse in suos indulgentia, ut, quos amare deberet, irasci eis nefas duceret.
Which is a sign either that no complaint had ever arisen between them, or that he was of such indulgence toward his own relatives that he deemed it a sin to be angry with those whom he ought to love.
§17.3neque id fecit natura solum, quamquam omnes ei paremus, sed etiam doctrina: nam principum philosophorum ita percepta habuit praecepta, ut iis ad vitam agendam, non ad ostentationem uteretur.
Nor did he do this by nature alone, although we all obey her, but also by learning; for he had so mastered the precepts of the leading philosophers that he used them for conducting his life, and not for display.