Hic est sensus, non autem ordo ipse

Hic est sensus, non autem ordo ipse verborum quae dormiens ille cantavit; neque enim possunt carmina, quamvis optime composita, ex alia in aliam linguam ad verbum sine detrimento sui decoris ac dignitatis transferri.

Résultats (Anglais) 1:

This is the meaning, not the exact order of the words that he sang to them in his sleep; For we can not verses, though never so well composed, on the other, without losing much of their beauty and the dignity of the word of the in the to be transferred to another language.