talis lege deum clivoso tramite vitae per varios praeceps casus rota volvitur aevi; sat tibi, sat magna et totum vulgata per orbem stant documenta domus: sacer ille et numine nullo inferior, tuus ille parens decora alta paravit restando adversis nec virtutem exuit ullam ante reluctantes liquit quam spiritus artus.
Such is the law of Heaven: the wheel of our existence, as it moves on along the steep track of life, is subject to many a slip. Great enough and famous throughout the world are the title-deeds of your house; your father, that sacred figure whom no deity excels, gained his high renown by defying ill-fortune; and he discarded none of the virtues until the time when his spirit fled from the unwilling body.
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