par donis armisque manus: si solveret ignis

quot dedit inmanes vili pro pondere massas 235

argenti, potuere lacus et flumina fundi.

Nec tibi, quae pariter silvis dominaris et astris,

exiguam Stilicho movit, Latonia, curam:

tu quoque nobilibus spectacula nostra laboras

inlustrare feris summoque in vertice rupis 240

Alpinae socias arcu cessante pudicas

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and bear thee back with him to his armies. Accompany and bless him in war and give him back in robes of peace to our council-chambers. Always has he brought thee home in a spirit of mercy and kept thee kindly to the vanquished nor ever stained thy laurels with cruelty. He neither looks with disdain on his fellow-citizens nor harries the anxious city with his legionaries; but true consul now that the war is ended he comes accompanied only by his lictors nor seeks the useless protection of the sword, guarded only by a people’s love.