Iulus, as it will pass one day under heaven’s mighty cope.

This, this is he, the man promised to you so often, Augustus

Cæsar, true child of a god, who shall establish again

for Latium a golden age in that very region where Saturn 10

once reigned, while he stretches his sway alike beyond

Garamantian and Indian. See, the land is lying outside

the stars, outside the sun’s yearly path, where heaven-carrier

Atlas turns round on his shoulder the pole, studded

with burning constellations. In view of his approach, a 15

shiver runs already by oracular warning through Caspian