1Although you are yourself most self-restrained, and have brought up your daughter as befitted your daughter, the granddaughter of Tutilius, yet since she is about to marry a most honourable man, Nonius Celer, on whom the demands of his public duties impose a certain need for elegance, she ought, in keeping with her husband's position, to have clothes and attendants, by which her dignity is not indeed increased, yet is adorned and equipped. 2Moreover I know that you are very rich in spirit, modest in means. 2So I claim part of your burden for myself, and, as a second parent to our girl, I contribute fifty thousand sesterces, and should contribute more, were I not confident that only by the smallness of the little gift could your modesty be prevailed upon not to refuse it.
2Farewell.