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Again and again I kiss the portals of Rome,
Slowly my feet cross thy sacred threshold,
I beg forgiveness for my leaving,
And offer a sacrifice in words garbled by tears:
Hear me O fairest queen of all our world,
Fairest in all the earth, ROMA
Listen, thou mother of men and gods,
Thy temples bring Heaven near.
Of thee we sing, and shall ever praise
while the fates allow.
No man is safe if he forgets you,
It were worse crime than forgetting the sun.
If we ceased holding Thy honour in our hearts.
Thou, impartial as sunlight
In the splashing reaches of outer seas
All that Phoebus oer’ flies in his chariot,
His horses that rise from your domain
sink down to your soil.
Thou, Roma, Libya has not kept away
with her scorching sands
Nor did the Great Bear, armed with native cold, repulse thee.
As far as habitable nature has stretched toward the poles
So far has earth opened a path for your valour.
For unto diverse nations hast thou made a single country;
To their good, not seeking to dominate,
Gavest law to the conquered as consorts
You have made a city of what was once a world!
—Rutilius Claudius Namatianus
De Reditu Suo, 40-66
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