Roma patrem patriae Ciceronem libera dixit.
Arpinas alius Volscorum in monte solebat
Poscere mercedes alieno lassus aratro,
Nodosam post haec frangebat vertice vitem,
Si lentus pigra muniret castra dolabra;
Hic tamen et Cimbros et summa pericula rerum
Excipit et solus trepidantem protegit urbem.
Juvenal, Sat. viii. 237-239, 243-250.
239 in omni monte, i.e. in every part of Rome, on each of the seven hills.
244 patrem patriae: under the Empire the title pater patriae became a formal one, always accorded to the new Emperor.