Ausonius, Decimus Magnus, Parentalia

tum profugum in terris, per quas erumpit Aturrus

then, a fugitive, in the lands through which the Adour bursts out

Tarbellique furor perstrepit oceani,

and the fury of the Tarbellian ocean roars,

grassantis dudum fortunae tela paventem

fearing the weapons of a fortune long on the rampage,

pauperis Aemiliae condicio inplicuit.

you were bound by a match with poor Aemilia.

mox tenuis multo quaesita pecunia nisu

Soon slender money, sought with great effort,

solamen fesso, non et opes tribuit,

brought comfort to you in your weariness, but not wealth as well.

tu caeli numeros et conscia sidera fati

You, the numbers of the sky and the stars that are privy to fate,

callebas studium dissimulanter agens,

understood well, pursuing the study in secret;

non ignota tibi nostrae quoque formula vitae,

nor was the pattern of my life, too, unknown to you,

signatis quam tu condideras tabulis,

which you had laid away in sealed tablets,

prodita non umquam; sed matris cura retexit,

never disclosed; but my mother’s care uncovered

sedula quam timidi cura tegebat avi.

what the anxious care of a fearful grandfather kept hidden.

tu novies denos vitam cum duxeris annos,

You, when you had drawn out your life for nine times ten years,

expertus Fortis tela cavenda deae,

having felt the weapons, to be dreaded, of the goddess Fors,