2.  The parents of Cæsarius, to take first the point which best becomes me, are known to you all.  Their excellence you are eager to notice, and hear of with admiration, and share in the task of setting it forth to any, if there be such, who know it not:  for no single man is able to do so entirely, and the task is one beyond the powers of a single tongue, however laborious, however zealous.  Among the many and great points for which they are to be celebrated (I trust I may not seem extravagant in praising my own family) the greatest of all, which more than any other stamps their character, is piety.  By their hoar hairs they lay claim to reverence, but they are no less venerable for their virtue than for their age; for while their bodies are bent beneath the burden of their years, their souls renew their youth in God.

Καισαρίῳ πατέρες μέν, ἵν' ἐντεῦθεν ἄρξωμαι ὅθεν ἡμῖν πρεπωδέστατον, οὓς πάντες γινώσκετε, καὶ ὧν τὴν ἀρετὴν καὶ ὁρῶντες καὶ ἀκούοντες ζηλοῦτέ « τε » καὶ θαυμάζετε, καὶ διηγεῖσθε τοῖς ἀγνοοῦσιν, εἴπερ τινές εἰσιν ἀνθρώπων, ἄλλος ἄλλο τι μέρος ἀπολαβόντες: ἐπεὶ μὴ πάντα τὸν αὐτὸν οἷόν τε, μηδὲ μιᾶς γλώσσης τὸ ἔργον, κἂν σφόδρα τις ᾖ τῶν φιλοπονωτάτων καὶ φιλοτίμων: οἷς πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων ὑπαρχόντων εἰς εὐφημίαν, εἰ μή τῳ περιττὸς εἶναι δοκῶ τὰ οἰκεῖα θαυμάζων, ἓν μέγιστον ἁπάντων, καὶ ὥσπερ ἄλλο τι ἐπίσημόν ἐστιν, ἡ εὐσέβεια: τοὺς σεμνοὺς τούσδε λέγω καὶ πολιούς, καὶ οὐχ ἧττον δι' ἀρετὴν αἰδεσίμους ἢ διὰ γῆρας: ὧν τὰ μὲν σώματα χρόνῳ κέκμηκεν, αἱ ψυχαὶ δὲ Θεῷ νεάζουσι.