And fix it steddy on its solid Base,
Great Theodosius try’d, but try’d d in vain.
In two and thirty Days, by Proclus’ Skill,
The toilsome Work, with great Applause, was finish’d.
And on the other Side was this Inscription in Latin, which was somewhat defac’d, but I could read it, and is as follows:
Difficilis quondam dominis parere serenis
Jussus, & extinctis palmam portare Tyrannis.
Omnia Theodosio cedunt, sobolique perenni:
Ter denis sic victus, duobusque diebus,
Judice sub Proclo, sublime elatus ad auras.