[44] Anicia Faltonia Proba. She was still alive in 410 and according to Procopius (_Bell. Vand._ i. 2) opened the gates of Rome to Alaric. [45] Thetis, daughter of Nereus, was married to Peleus on Mount Pelion in Thessaly. * * * * * Page 18 quam neque fas Zephyris frangi nec sole perustam aestivo candore mori; sed vivida frondet aequaevum complexa caput. taurina levantur 220 cornua temporibus raucos sudantia rivos; distillant per pectus aquae; frons hispida manat imbribus; in liquidos fontes se barba repectit. palla graves umeros velat, quam neverat uxor Ilia percurrens vitreas sub gurgite telas. 225 Est in Romuleo procumbens insula Thybri qua medius geminas interfluit alveus urbes discretas subeunte freto, pariterque minantes ardua turrigerae surgunt in culmina ripae. hic stetit et subitum prospexit ab aggere votum: 230 unanimos[46] fratres iuncto stipante senatu ire forum strictasque procul radiare secures atque uno biiuges tolli de limine fasces. obstupuit visu suspensaque gaudia vocem oppressam tenuere diu; mox incohat ore: 235 “Respice, si tales iactas aluisse fluentis, Eurota Spartane, tuis. quid protulit aequum falsus olor, valido quamvis decernere caestu noverit et ratibus saevas arcere procellas? en nova Ledaeis suboles fulgentior astris, 240 ecce mei cives, quorum iam Signifer optat adventum stellisque parat convexa futuris. iam per noctivagos dominetur Olybrius axes pro Polluce rubens, pro Castore flamma Probini. [46] Birt, following MSS., _unanimes_; Koch _unanimos_. * * * * * Page 19 This the Zephyrs may not break nor the summer sun scorch to withering; it lives and burgeons around those brows immortal as itself. From his temples sprout horns like those of a bull; from these pour babbling streamlets; water drips upon his breast, showers pour down his hair-crowned forehead, flowing rivers from his parted beard. There clothes his massy shoulders a cloak woven by his wife Ilia, who threaded the crystalline loom beneath the flood. There lies in Roman Tiber’s stream an island where the central flood washes as ’twere two cities parted by the sundering waters: with equal threatening height the tower-clad banks rise in lofty buildings. Here stood Tiber and from this eminence beheld his prayer of a sudden fulfilled, saw the twin-souled brothers enter the Forum amid the press of thronging senators, the bared axes gleam afar and both sets of fasces brought forth from one threshold. He stood amazed at the sight and for a long time incredulous joy held his voice in check. Yet soon he thus began: