Qui tecum cupis esse meos ubicumque libellos | You who are keen to have my books with you everywhere |
Et comites longae quaeris habere viae, | and want to have them as companions for a long journey, |
Hos eme, quos artat brevibus membrane tabellis: | Buy these ones
which parchment
confines within small leaves, |
Scrinia da magnis, me manus una capit. | provide cylinders for the great [authors] -- one hand can hold me. |
Ne tamen ignores ubi sim venalis et erres | So that you may not fail to know where I am for sale, and wander |
Urbe vagus tota, me duce certus eris: | aimlessly throughout the whole city, with me as guide you will be certain: |
Libertum docti Lucensis quaere Secundum | Look for Secundus, the freedman of learned Lucensis |
Limina post Pacis Palladiumque forum. | behind the threshold of the Temple of Peace and the forum Palladium. |