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In mortem praeproperam.
Untimely death
Qui teneras forma allicuit[1] torsitque puellas
Pulchrior & tota nobilis urbe puer
Occidit ante diem, nulli mage flendus Aresti
Quàm tibi, cui casto iunctus amore fuit.
Ergo illi tumulum tanti monumenta doloris
Adstruis, & querulis vocibus astra feris.
Me sine abis dilecte? neque amplius ibimus unà?
Nec mecum in studiis otia grata teres?
Sed te terra teget, sed fati Gorgonis ora,
Delphinesque, tui signa dolenda dabunt.
That handsome lad, famed throughout all the city, who attracted and tormented tender-hearted girls with his beauty, has perished before his time, mourned by no one more than you, Arestius, to whom he was joined in chaste affection. Therefore you build him a tomb as a memorial of such great love and assail the heavens with cries of grief: Beloved, are you gone away without me? Shall we never be together again? Will you never again spend happy leisure hours with me in study? But the earth will cover you, a Gorgon’s head and dolphins shall provide doleful symbols of your fate.
1. Textual variant: ‘allexit’.
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