rectores Libyae populo quod iudice pallent 100 et post emeritas moderator quisque secures discrimen letale subit, quid Poenus arator intulerit, madidus quantum transmiserit Auster. ardua qui late terris responsa dedere, hic trepidant humiles; tremuit quos Africa nuper, 105 cernunt rostra reos. cani virtutibus aevi materiam pandit Stilicho populumque vetusti culminis inmemorem dominandi rursus in usum excitat, ut magnos calcet metuendus honores, pendat iustitia crimen, pietate remittat 110 errorem purosque probet damnetque nocentes et patrias iterum clemens exerceat artes. Fallitur egregio quisquis sub principe credit servitium. numquam libertas gratior extat quam sub rege pio. quos praeficit ipse regendis 115 rebus, ad arbitrium plebis patrumque reducit conceditque libens, meritis seu praemia poscant seu punire velint. posito iam purpura fastu de se iudicium non indignatur haberi. sic docuit regnare socer, sic cauta iuventae 120 frena dedit, teneros sic moribus induit annos verior Augusti genitor, fiducia belli, pacis consilium: per quem squalore remoto pristina Romuleis infloruit artibus aetas, per quem fracta diu translataque paene potestas 125 * * * * * Page 51 chiefs of Libya tremble before the judgement-throne of our people, and that, his office ended, each governor must account under pain of death for all the corn the Carthaginian farmer has brought in, all that the rainy south-wind has dispatched to Rome. Those who of late uttered their proud judgements to broad domains here are cowed and tremble; those whom Africa held in dread Rome’s forum sees accused. Stilicho gives scope for the virtues of a bygone age and rouses a people, forgetful of their former glory, to resume their accustomed sovereignty, to make themselves feared, to tread powerful magistrates beneath their heel, to mete out to crime its due reward, to show mercy towards the erring, favour to the innocent, punishment to the guilty, and to exercise once more their native virtue of clemency.