“What thousands will then throng the Flaminian Way! How often will the deceptive dust disappoint the loving expectation of those who trust to see thee arrive every minute! Anxiously our mothers watch for thee; every road will be strewn with flowers * * * * * Page 32 arduus, antiqui species Romana senatus. Pompeiana dabunt quantos proscaenia plausus! ad caelum quotiens vallis tibi Murcia ducet nomen Aventino Pallanteoque recussum! 405 nunc te conspiciam castris, permitte, relictis mox et cum genero trabeis visura secundis.” Haec dum Roma refert, iam Fama loquacibus alis pervolat Oceanum, linguis et mille citatos festinare iubet proceres, nullique senectus, 410 non iter hibernis obstant nec flatibus Alpes: vincit amor. meriti pridem clarique vetustis fascibus ad socii properant et vindicis annum. sic ubi fecunda reparavit morte iuventam et patrios idem cineres collectaque portat 415 unguibus ossa piis Nilique ad litora tendens unicus extremo Phoenix procedit ab Euro: conveniunt aquilae cunctaeque ex orbe volucres, ut Solis mirentur avem; procul ignea lucet ales, odorati redolent cui cinnama busti. 420 Nec minor in caelo chorus est; exultat uterque Theodosius divique tui; Sol ipse quadrigis vere coronatis dignum tibi praeparat annum. Est ignota procul nostraeque impervia menti, vix adeunda deis, annorum squalida mater, 425 inmensi spelunca aevi, quae tempora vasto suppeditat revocatque sinu. complectitur antrum, omnia qui placido consumit numine, serpens perpetuumque viret squamis caudamque reductam ore vorat tacito relegens exordia lapsu. 430 * * * * * Page 33 while the consul, true image of Rome’s ancient senate, climbs the steep summit of the Pincian hill. What applause from the theatre of Pompey! How often will the Murcian valley raise to heaven thy name re-echoed by Aventine and Palatine! Leave the camp and let me behold thee now, soon to see thee, consul for a second time, along with thy son-in-law.”