Per memores genus omne fastos, etc.
Quod per amoenam urbem leni fluit agmine flumen
Audire est operae pretium procedere recte
Qui rem Romanam Latiumque augescere vultis.
‘Yes, let her spread her name of fear,
To farthest shores; where central waves
Part Africa from Europe, where
Nile’s swelling current half the year
The plains with plenty laves.
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