Palladiaque comas innexus harundine Triton edomitis veheretur aquis et in aere trementem succinctae famulum ferrent Atlanta cohortes, 380 ipse Iugurthinam subiturus carcere poenam praeberet fera colla iugo, vi captus et armis, non Bocchi Syllaeque dolis. “Sed prima remitto. num praesens etiam Getici me laurea belli declinare potest? sedesve capacior ulla 385 tantae laudis erit? tua te benefacta morantem conveniunt, meritisque suis obnoxia virtus quod servavit amat. iam flavescentia centum messibus aestivae detondent Gargara falces, spectatosque iterum nulli celebrantia ludos 390 circumflexa rapit centenus saecula consul: his annis, qui lustra mihi bis dena recensent, nostra ter Augustos intra pomeria vidi, temporibus variis; eadem sed causa tropaei civilis dissensus erat. venere superbi, 395 scilicet ut Latio respersos sanguine currus adspicerem! quisquamne piae laetanda parenti natorum lamenta putet? periere tyranni, sed nobis periere tamen. cum Gallica vulgo proelia iactaret, tacuit Pharsalica Caesar. 400 namque inter socias acies cognataque signa ut vinci miserum, numquam vicisse decorum. restituat priscum per te iam gloria morem verior, et fructum sincerae laudis ab hoste * * * * * Page 103 Triton, with his conquered waters and his head crowned with Minerva’s sacred reeds; crowds of slaves with upgirt dresses bore a figure of trembling Atlas cast in bronze; Gildo himself, destined to undergo in prison the punishment once meted out to Jugurtha, offered his stubborn neck to the yoke, Gildo fallen a captive to the arms of Rome, not to the treachery of a Bocchus and a Sulla.[36]