Cantori amatissimo, magistro deoque vero poetarum: I first met you when I was young: like Vergil before Ovid, you passed before me when I was no Ovid, and your shadow like St. Peter’s cured me of the ills of the melancholy of this life by the daylight of your verse. The wrath of Thetis’ son taught me joy; the exuberance of Diomedes my patience; the tears and tones of Achilles beside the roaring sea the truth there is in music where I had previously known only its frivolity. In the lamentations of the dead on the
''Whether god or man I know you not, and yet I love you, for you have taught my soul those worthy things it knows. If you truly suffer punishments as thought Pythagoras, if in Limbo you idle as Dante saw, then I do not wish to traverse those shores beyond the wine-dark void without first coming to get you; but I know my God has not left you there, his whose descent all other descents evoke''
''I was no Ovid, and your shadow like St. Peter’s cured me of the ills of the melancholy of this life by the daylight of your verse. The wrath of Thetis’ son taught me joy; the exuberance of Diomedes my patience; the tears and tones of Achilles beside the roaring sea the truth there is in music where I had previously known only its frivolity'' Stuck out particularly many thanks
''Whether god or man I know you not, and yet I love you, for you have taught my soul those worthy things it knows. If you truly suffer punishments as thought Pythagoras, if in Limbo you idle as Dante saw, then I do not wish to traverse those shores beyond the wine-dark void without first coming to get you; but I know my God has not left you there, his whose descent all other descents evoke''
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''I was no Ovid, and your shadow like St. Peter’s cured me of the ills of the melancholy of this life by the daylight of your verse. The wrath of Thetis’ son taught me joy; the exuberance of Diomedes my patience; the tears and tones of Achilles beside the roaring sea the truth there is in music where I had previously known only its frivolity'' Stuck out particularly many thanks