1I rejoice and congratulate you on having betrothed your daughter to Fuscus Salinator. 1His house is patrician, his father most honourable, his mother of equal repute; 1he himself is studious, well read, eloquent too, a boy in his simplicity, a young man in his friendliness, an old man in his seriousness. 1Nor am I deceived by affection. 2I do love him lavishly — so has he deserved it by his attentions, by his respect — yet I judge, and indeed all the more sharply the more I love; 2and I promise you, as one who has tested him, that you will have a son-in-law than whom a better could not have been imagined even in a prayer.
3It remains that he should make you, as soon as possible, the grandfather of children like himself. 3How happy that time will be, when it will be my lot to take his children, your grandchildren, from your arms as if they were my own children or grandchildren, and to hold them with almost equal right! 3Farewell.