LIBER VII · CAPUT 41
RARE INSTANCES OF GOOD FORTUNE CONTINUING IN THE SAME FAMILY
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
Una feminarum in omni aevo Lampido Lacedaemonia reperitur, quae regis filia, regis uxor, regis mater fuerit, una Berenice, quae filia, soror, mater Olympionicarum; una familia Curionum, in qua tres continua serie oratores extiterint, una Fabiorum, in qua tres continui principes senatus, M. Fabius Ambustus, Fabius Rullianus filius, Q. Fabius Gurges nepos.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
During the whole course of ages, we find only one woman, and that, Lampido, the Lacedæmonian, who was the daughter of a king, the wife of a king, and the mother of a king. Berenice was the only woman who was daughter, sister, and mother of conquerors in the Olympian games. The family of the Curios has been the only one to produce three orators in succession; that of the Fabii alone has given three chiefs of the senate in succession, Fabius Ambustus, his son Fabius Rullianus, and his grandson Quintus Fabius Gurges.