De tabe et phthisi pronunciata

For such are these things:

About which it is better to have said nothing than to say little,
Perhaps it was better to have remained silent.
This is enough for me to have said, but to say more
Would be the work of another labor.

What remains, I ask and beseech you in a greater manner, that you might accept and receive these my theses, printed with trivial currency, with a cheerful face, as if they were a votive tablet, both kai autoschedian and spontaneous anathēma votive offering, and that you be the most equitable judges of my thinness. This itself, although I have no merit of my own, your syngeneia anchinoia kinship of quick-wittedness seems to demand as if by its own right. The die is cast, may it turn out well, and I promise myself even now that your minds and wills are reconciled, with that existing which can testify to my observance toward you, and perhaps propagate it to late descendants by some monument. That same thing will testify to the perpetuity and constancy of your love and benevolence, which, having been begun under happy and favorable auspices at some time,