ilicet, ut ad epistulae vestrae tenorem iam revertamur, post verba, quae primum salve ferebant, hoc poposcisti, ut epigramma transmitterem duodecim versibus terminatum, quod posset aptari conchae capaci, quae per ansarum latus utrumque in extimum gyri a rota fundi senis cavatur striaturis.
Well, then, to return to the substance of your letter, after the words which began by bidding me greeting, you asked me to send you a little poem, limited to twelve lines, suitable for inscribing on a capacious shell-shaped basin, in which the side where each handle is placed is traversed by six fluted groves, winding from the round base to the end of their sinuous course.
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