Et longum tenues tractus producit in aurum
Filaque concreto cogit squalere metallo.[95]
The joyful mother plies her learned hands,
And works all o’er the trabea golden bands,
Draws the thin strips to all their length of gold,
To make the metal meaner threads enfold.
A consular figure, arrayed in the purple trabea, profusely embroidered in gold, is shown in “The Church of our Fathers.”[96]
[94] Lib. viii. c. 47.
[95] In Probini et Olybrii Consulatum, 177-182.