"Illum non populi fasces, non purpura regum flexit, et infidos agitans discordia fratres; Aut coniurato descendens Dacus ab Histro, Non res Romanae, perituraque regna."
— Georgics

January 1, 1970

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Line 495 (tr. Edmund Luce) — Cp. Ovid, Epistulae ex Ponto IV. iv. 25: Purpura Pompeium summi velabit honoris. — The purple (the insignia) of the highest office shall clothe Pompeius.