Cuius ego ingressus vestigia dum rationes persequor ac doceo dictis, quo quaeque creata foedere sint, in eo quam sit durare necessum nec validas valeant aevi rescindere leges (quo genere in primis animi natura reperta est nativo primum consistere corpore creta nec posse incolumem magnum durare per aevom, sed simulacra solere in somnis fallere mentem, cernere cum videamur eum quem vita reliquit),.
His steps I trace, his doctrines I follow, teaching in my poem how all things are bound to abide in that law by which they were made, and how they are impotent to annul the strong statutes of time; and herein first of all the nature of the mind has been nature found first to consist of a body that had birth, and unable to endure intact through a long time; but only images are accustomed in sleep to cheat the intelligence, when we seem to see him whom life has left.
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