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cui dono lepidum nouum libellum arida modo pumice expolitum? |
To whom am I to present my pretty new book,
freshly smoothed off with dry pumice-stone? |
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Corneli, tibi: namque tu solebas
meas esse aliquid putare nugas |
To you, Cornelius: for you used to think
that my trifles were worth something, |
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iam tum, cum ausus es unus Italorum
omne aeuum tribus explicare cartis doctis, Iuppiter, et laboriosis. |
long ago, when you took courage, you alone of Italians,
to set forth the whole history of the world in three volumes, learned volumes, by Jupiter, and laboriously wrought. |
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quare habe tibi quidquid hoc libelli
qualecumque; quod, patrona virgo plus uno maneat perenne saeclo. |
So take and keep for your own this little book, such as it is,
and whatever it is worth; and may it, O Virgin my patroness, live and last for more than one century. |
