respondebis illi tu, Stella carissime, qui epithalamium tuum, quod mihi iniunxeras, scis biduo scriptum: audacter mehercules, sed ter centum tamen hexametros habet et fortasse tu pro collega mentieris.
Dearest Stella, you will answer him; you know that your Wedding Ode, which you enjoined upon me, was written in a couple of days. A bold claim indeed'and after all it has three hundred hexameters, and maybe you will tell a fib for a colleague.
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