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ZMYRNA mei Cinnae nonam post denique messem
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My friend Cinna’s Smyrna, published at last nine harvest-tides
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quam coepta est nonamque edita post hiemem,
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and nine winters after it was begun
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milia cum interea quingenta Hortensius uno
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whilst Hortensius [has brought out] five hundred thousand
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[ . . . ]
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[verses] in one [year].
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Zmyrna cauas Satrachi penitus mittetur ad undas,
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Smyrna will travel as far away as the deep-channelled streams of Satrachus,
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Zmyrnam cana diu saecula peruoluent.
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the centuries will grow grey in long perusal of Smyrna.
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at Volusi annales Paduam morientur ad ipsam
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But the Annals of Volusius will die by the river Padua where they were born,
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et laxas scombris saepe dabunt tunicas
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and will often furnish a loose wrapper for mackerels.
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parva mei mihi sint cordi monumenta sodalis,
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9
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Let the modest memorials of my friend be dear to me,
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at populus tumido gaudeat Antimacho
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10
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and let the vulgar rejoice in their windy Antimachus.
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