Nepos, Atticus 17

Att. 17.1Dē pietāte autem Atticī quid plūra commemorem?But as to Atticus' devotion to his family, why should I say more? Att. 17.1Cum hoc ipsum vērē glōriantem audierim in fūnere mātris suae, quam extulit annōrum nōnāgintā, cum ipse esset septem et sexāgintā, sē numquam cum mātre in grātiam redīsse, numquam cum sorōre fuisse in simultāte, quam prope aequālem habēbat.For I heard him truly boast of this very thing at the funeral of his mother, whom he buried at the age of ninety, when he was himself sixty-seven: that he had never had to be reconciled with his mother, and had never been at odds with his sister, who was nearly his own age. Att. 17.2Quod est signum aut nūllam umquam inter eōs querimōniam intercessisse, aut hunc eā fuisse in suōs indulgentiā, ut, quōs amāre dēbēret, īrāscī eīs nefās dūceret.This is a sign either that no complaint ever arose between them, or that he showed such indulgence towards his family that he considered it wrong to be angry with those whom he ought to love. Att. 17.3Neque id fēcit nātūrā sōlum, quamquam omnēs eī pārēmus, sed etiam doctrīnā: nam prīncipum philosophōrum ita percepta habuit praecepta, ut iīs ad vītam agendam, nōn ad ostentātiōnem ūterētur.Nor did he do this by nature alone, although we all obey her, but also by learning: for he had so taken in the precepts of the leading philosophers that he used them for living his life, not for display.