Selecta capita ex scriptoribus Graecis in usum classis quintae Carolinae

As time led him along with his growth to the age of becoming an adolescent, he began to use shorter speeches and a quieter voice. He was filled with modesty, so that he even blushed when he happened to meet his elders, and his puppy-like habit of rushing at everyone was no longer the same. Thus, he was quieter. But in social gatherings, he was altogether charming. For in those things where his peers often competed with one another, he did not challenge those with him in the things where he was already superior, but he started competitions in those things where he knew himself to be inferior, claiming that he would do better than them. He already began jumping onto horses, or throwing the javelin, or shooting with the bow from horseback, even though he was not yet very steady. And when he was defeated, he laughed at himself most of all.

And since he did not run away from being defeated, by not doing the things in which he was defeated, but rather wallowed in the attempt to do better again, he quickly reached equality with his peers in horsemanship, and quickly surpassed them, because of his love for the work. He quickly exhausted the wild animals in the park,