'Tis a lighter crime to neglect our countrymen when at their ease: our common losses call for each man's loyalty. P767 as from ethereal pole to pole of the celestial vault we believe there abideth the council of the Deity Supreme.īut 'tis my fortune that is plucked back from the well-loved land the fields of Gaul summon home their native. 5 Disfigured they are by wars immeasurably long, yet the less their charm, the more they earn pity. They share the power of their colleagues in the senatorial order, and possess part of the sacred Genius 4 which they revere, even Happy they too who, winning meeds next to the first, have enjoyed Latin homes! 3 The Senate-house, though fenced with awe, yet stands open to foreign merit, nor deems those strangers who are fittingly its own. How greatly and how often can I count those blest who have deserved birth in that happy soil! Those high born scions of Roman nobility crown their honourable birth with the lustre of the Capital! On no other land could the seeds of virtues have been more worthily let fall by heaven's assignment. What is too long for men who spend all time in venerating Rome? 2 Nothing is ever too long that never fails to please. Rather 1 will you marvel, reader, that my quick return journey (to Gaul) can so soon renounce the blessings of the city of Romulus.
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