cui primum solito vulgi de more salutem, mox inclusa modis haec reddere verba memento: Iam terras volucremque polum fuga veris aquosi lassat et Icariis caelum latratibus urit; ardua iam densae rarescunt moenia Romae.
First you shall greet him in ordinary everyday form, then be sure to give him this message in verse: Already the flight of watery spring wearies earth and whirling sky and burns heaven with Icarian barking. Already the lofty buildings of crowded Rome are less populous.
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