26 i.e. the well Iuturna in the Forum (‘the well that springs by Vesta’s fane’) at which the Dioscuri washed their horses after their hot ride from Lake Regillus.

41 ad eloquium cives = citizens to hear and profit by your eloquence.—N. P.

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LAUS ROMAE.

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Haec est in gremium victos quae sola recepit

Humanumque genus communi nomine fovit

Matris, non dominae ritu: civesque vocavit

Quos domuit, nexuque pio longinqua revinxit.

Huius pacificis debemus moribus omnes