of bright silver in joyous circles were lashing the surface
with their tails and cutting the tide. In the midst might
be seen fleets of brazen ships, the naval war of Actium;
you might remark the whole of Leucate aglow with the
war-god’s array, and the waves one blaze of gold. On this 5
side is Augustus Cæsar leading the Italians to conflict,
with the senate and the people, the home-gods and their
mighty brethren, standing aloft on the stern: his auspicious
brows emit twin-born flames, and his ancestral
star dawns over his head. Elsewhere is Agrippa with the 10