{ Or they, suspecting his ambitious aim,

{ In hate of kings shall cast anew the frame,

{ And thrust out Collatine,[502] that bore their name.

}

{ Thus, inborn broils the factions would engage,

{ Or wars of exiled heirs, or foreign rage,

{ Till halting vengeance overtook our age;

And our wild labours, wearied into rest,

Reclined us on a rightful monarch's breast.

———Pudet hæc opprobria, vobis