“ Literal English TranslationOriginal LatinLine Often searching for you with a studious, hunting mind so that I could send the poems of Callimachus whereby I should appease you, nor you try to send hostile spears right into my head; I now see that this labor undertaken by me is in vain, O Gellius, nor that my prayers have prevailed in this. I'll escape those your hostile spears driven against us, but you, pierced, will give me compensation. ”
