Fame due to the achievements of the mind never perishes.
Fickleness has always befriended the beautiful.
Great is the height I just scale, but the prospect of glory gives me strength.
Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade
Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.
Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.