Visa potens, superi, propria hæc si dona fuissent …
Nec puer Iliaca quisquam de gente Latinos
In tantum spe tollet avos: nec Romula quondam
Ullo se tantum tellus jactabit alumno.”
As I have begun this quotation, I may as well go on with it:
‘“Heu, pietas! heu, prisca fides! invictaque bello
Dextera! non illi se quisquam impune tulisset
Obvius armato …
… Manibus date lilia plenis:
Purpureos spargam flores, animamque [sodalis]