This is he who trusted overmuch in the pools which were his kin—the youth Narcissus, worthy of no counterfeit love. You behold him making again from the moist meadow for the river-banks in hope of beholding the waters which wrought his doom.
Hic est ille, suis nimium qui credidit undis
Narcissus vero dignus amore puer.
cernis ab irriguo repetentem gramine ripas
ut per quas periit crescere possit aquas.
Narcissus vero dignus amore puer.
cernis ab irriguo repetentem gramine ripas
ut per quas periit crescere possit aquas.
Original text (Latin)