These shall uprear for you, high on the mountains, Nomentum, 25

and Gabii, and Fidenæ’s town, and the towers

of Collatia, Pometii and Inuus’ camp, and Bola, and

Cora; names which shall one day be named: now they

are mere nameless lands. Romulus, too, the child of

Mars, shall come along with his grandsire. Romulus, 30

whom a mother, bearing Ilium’s name, shall produce

from the blood of Assaracus. See you the two plumes

standing on his crest, how his sire marks him even now

for the upper world by his own token of honour? Yes,