5.  I have entered into these details, not from a desire to eulogize them, for this, I know well, it would be difficult worthily to do, if I made their praise the subject of my whole oration, but to set forth the excellence inherited from his parents by Cæsarius, and so prevent you from being surprised or incredulous, that one sprung from such progenitors, should have deserved such praises himself; nay, strange indeed would it have been, had he looked to others and disregarded the examples of his kinsfolk at home.  His early life was such as becomes those really well born and destined for a good life.  I say little of his qualities evident to all, his beauty, his stature, his manifold gracefulness, and harmonious disposition, as shown in the tones of his voice—for it is not my office to laud qualities of this kind, however important they may seem to others—and proceed with what I have to say of the points which, even if I wished, I could with difficulty pass by.

Καὶ ταῦτα διῆλθον, οὐ τούτους ἐγκωμιάσαι βουλόμενος, οὐδὲ ἀγνοῶν ὅτι μόλις ἄν τις τῆς ἀξίας ἐφίκοιτο, καὶ ὅλην ὑπόθεσιν λόγου τὸν τούτων ἔπαινον ἐνστησάμενος: ἀλλ' ἵν' ἐπιδείξαιμι ἐκ πατέρων ὀφειλομένην Καισαρίῳ τὴν ἀρετήν, καὶ μὴ θαυμάζητε μηδὲ ἀπιστῆτε, εἰ τοιούτων τυχὼν γεννητόρων, τοιούτων ἑαυτὸν παρέσχεν ἐπαίνων ἄξιον, ἀλλὰ τοὐναντίον, εἰ πρὸς ἑτέρους εἶδε, τῶν οἰκείων καὶ τῶν ἐγγύθεν ἀμελήσας ὑποδειγμάτων.

Τὰ μὲν δὴ πρῶτα τοιαῦτα, οἷα προσῆκεν εἶναι τοῖς ὄντως εὖ γεγονόσι καὶ καλῶς βιώσεσθαι μέλλουσιν. Ἵνα δὲ τὰ ἐν μέσῳ συντέμω, κάλλος καὶ μέγεθος καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ πᾶσι τοῦ ἀνδρὸς χάριν καὶ ὥσπερ ἐν φθόγγοις εὐαρμοστίαν, ὅτι μηδὲ πρὸς ἡμῶν τὰ τοιαῦτα θαυμάζειν, εἰ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις οὐ μικρὰ φαίνεται, πρὸς τὰ ἐφεξῆς βαδιοῦμαι τοῦ λόγου, καὶ ἃ μηδὲ βουλομένῳ παραλιπεῖν ῥᾴδιον.