iuuerit aut quantis iuuerit officiis,

helped me, and how greatly he helped me by his services,

illius hoc caeca nocte tegat studium:

hide in blind night this kindly zeal of his.

milibus et facite haec carta loquatur anus.

and let the paper speak this in its old age.

notescatque magis mortuus atque magis,

and let him be famous more and more in death;

in deserto Alli nomine opus faciat.

over the neglected name of Allius.

scitis, et in quo me torruerit genere,

ye know, and in what fashion she scorched me.

lymphaque in Oetaeis Malia Thermopylis,

and the Malian water at Oetean Thermopylae,

cessarent. tristique imbre madere genae.

nor my cheeks from streaming with a flood of sorrow;

riuus muscoso prosilit e lapide,

a bright stream leaps forth from a mossgrown rock,

per medium densi transit iter populi,

crosses the mid way thronged by the people,

cum grauis exustos aestus hiulcat agros:

when sultry heat makes the parched fields to gape;

lenius aspirans aura secunda uenit

comes a favouring breeze with gentler breath,

tale fuit nobis Allius auxilium.

such an aid to me was Allius;

isque domum nobis isque dedit dominae,

he gave me access to a house and its mistress,

quo mea se molli candida diua pede

Thither my fair goddess delicately stepped,

innixa arguta constituit solea,

as she pressed on her slender sandal;

Protesilaeam Laodamia domum

to the house of Protesilaus,

hostia caelestis pacificasset eros.

appeased the Lords of heaven.

quod temere inuitis suscipiatur eris.

which is undertaken amiss without the will of our Lords.

docta est amisso Laudamia uiro,

Laodamia learnt by the loss of her husband;

quam ueniens una atque altera rursus hiems

before the coming of one and then a second winter

posset ut abrupto uiuere coniugio,

that she might endure to live, though her husband was taken from her;

si miles muros isset ad Iliacos.

if once he went as a soldier to the walls of Ilium.

coeperat ad sese Troia ciere uiros,

to summon against herself the chieftains of the Argives,

Troia uirum et uirtutum omnium acerba cinis,

Troy the untimely tomb of all heroes and heroic deeds:

attulit. ei misero frater adempte mihi

alas! my brother, taken from me unhappy,

tecum una tota est nostra sepulta domus,

with thee now is all my house buried;

quae tuus in uita dulcis alebat amor.

which while thou wert alive thy sweet love cherished.

nec prope cognatos compositum cineres,

nor laid to rest near the ashes of thy kinsfolk,

detinet extremo terra aliena solo.

a foreign land holds in a distant soil.