To God best and greatest

"Lascaris was laid to rest in foreigh soil,
in no way, stranger, faulting it as excessivey strange;
he found it kind, and is grieved that his homeland
no longer raises a barrow in freedom for Greeks".

"Stranger, beneath me lies a woman of Laconia, daughter of Rhallos,
who came to Italy in flight from the enslavement of her country,
obedient to her grandfather; who married her to an illustrious man.
By reason of her own virtues she was indeed a credit to them,
but the evil fate of Hellas, albeit from afar, cut Katerine off,
pitying her neither for her being with child nor for her youth".