Page 114 una replet turbae facies: undare videres 545 ima viris, altas effulgere matribus aedes. exultant iuvenes aequaevi principis annis; temnunt prisca senes et in hunc sibi prospera fati gratantur durasse diem moderataque laudant tempora, quod clemens aditu, quod pectore solus 550 Romanos vetuit currum praecedere patres: cum tamen Eucherius, cui regius undique sanguis, atque Augusta soror fratri praeberet ovanti militis obsequium; sic illum dura parentis instituit pietas in se vel pignora parci 555 quique neget nato, procerum quod praestat honori. haec sibi curva[40] senum maturaque comprobat aetas idque inter veteris speciem praesentis et aulae iudicat: hunc civem, dominos venisse priores. Conspicuas tum flore genas, diademate crinem 560 membraque gemmato trabeae viridantia cinctu et fortes umeros et certatura Lyaeo inter Erythraeas surgentia colla smaragdos mirari sine fine nurus; ignaraque virgo, cui simplex calet ore pudor, per singula cernens 565 nutricem consultat anum: quid fixa draconum ora velint? ventis fluitent an vera minentur sibila suspensum rapturi faucibus hostem? ut chalybe indutos equites et in aere latentes vidit cornipedes: “quanam de gente” rogabat 570 “ferrati venere viri? quae terra metallo nascentes informat equos? num Lemnius auctor [40] _curva_ Birt; codd. _cura_. * * * * * Page 115 as it was possible to go on the house roofs; the ground seethed with men, the lofty buildings were aglow with women. Those who are young rejoice in an emperor of their own age, the old cease to belaud the past and count their destiny happy that they have lived to see such a day, blessing the kindly times when a prince so easy of access, so singular in courtesy, forbade the senators of Rome to march before his chariot, even though Eucherius, in whose veins ran regal blood on father’s and on mother’s side, and his own sister did honour to his triumph like simple soldiers. Such has been the teaching of that stern but loving parent who showed no more favour to his children than to himself, and refused a son honours he granted to nobles. Bent age and upstanding youth alike are loud in his praises and, comparing the new with the ancient rule, recognize in Honorius a true citizen, in his predecessors tyrants.