post quae precatu parentis orbati neniam funebrem non per elegos sed per hendecasyllabos marmori incisam planctu prope calente dictavi.
After this, at the request of her bereaved father, I composed, almost before the violence of my grief had abated, a funeral dirge, not in elegiacs but in hendecasyllables, and this has been engraved on marble.
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