conventum caelo praebuit aula parem.
joyous was that Jove whom, after the war with the giants, heaven welcomed, enriched with the spoils from Phlegra’s field!
My dream has come true; ’twas no vain imagining; nor did the false ivory gate[21] send forth an unaccomplished dream. Behold our lord, behold earth towering to heaven’s height! Here before me are gods such as I then saw, gods worthy of all reverence. Nought greater could dreams have fancied; this noble assembly offers the poet an audience like to that of heaven.
[21] A reference to the famous epilogue of Verg. Aen. vi. (ll. 893-96). Dreams which come through the ivory gate are false, those which issue from the gate of horn, true.
PANEGYRICUS
(XXVIII.)
Aurea Fortunae Reduci si templa priores
ob reditum vovere ducum, non dignius umquam