classic (ut pictura poesis)

fiat lux:
amor vincit omnia,
exitus acta probat.

amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore.
omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.

brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.
paucorum est intelligere quid donet deus.

et nos cedamus amori.

let there be light:
love conquers all,
the end justifies the means.

i hope the memory of our friendship will be everlasting.
all things are changing, and we are changing with them.

i strive to be brief, and i become obscure.
it is granted to few to comprehend what god gives.

let us too give in to love.

virgil
ovid
vulgate

cicero
lothar i

horace
syrus

virgil