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• venisti tandem, tuaque exspectata parenti vicit iter durum pietas?

  'Have you come at last and has your piety, awaited by your father, conquered the hard journey?
• datur ora tueri, nate, tua et notas audire et reddere voces?

  Is it permitted to gaze upon your face my son, both to hear your voice and to respond with familiar voices?
• sic equidem ducebam animo rebarque futurum

  I for my part was considering in this way and was thinking that it would happen
• tempora dinumerans, nec me mea cura fefellit.

  counting the time, nor did my care deceive me
• quas ego te terras et quanta per aequora vectum accipio!

  Carried over what lands and what great seas do I receive you!
• quantis iactatum, nate, periclis!

  My son, tossed by such great dangers!
• quam metui ne quid Libyae tibi regna nocerent!'

  How I feared in case the kingdoms of Libya harmed you in some way!