sed quid dolorem nostrum moderaturi causis potius doloris fomenta sufficimus? ergo, ut dicere institueramus, huic iam, ut cst illud Maronianum, cineri ingrato id est gratiam non relaturo neniam condidimus tristem luctuosamque propemodum laboriose, quia faceret dictandi desuetudo difficultatem, nisi quod animum natura desidiosissimum dolor fletu gravidus accendit.
But why, hoping to calm my grief, do I go on supplying fuel to the flame of it? So, then, as I had started to say at first, I have composed this sad and mournful dirge, in honour, as Virgils phrase has it, of the unthankful ashes (that is to say, the dead who can show no gratitude): the work has been in a sense laborious, for my disuse of composition was making it a difficult task, except that my natural indolence was quickened by my tear-burdened grief.
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