Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Carmina 1.2.13–24

The Tiber floods in vengeance for Ilia, threatening the monuments of Romulus and the temple of Vesta, as Horace warns that a generation corrupted by civil war will turn its swords on itself rather than on foreign enemies.

 

Tier 1

Nos vidimus flavum Tiberim, undis violenter reiectis Etrusco litore, ire deiectum (to destroy) monumenta regis et templa Vestae,

Dum errans fluvius, qui uxori paret, iactat se ultorem (as an avenger) Iliae nimium querenti (complaining), et sinistra ripa labitur non Iove probante.

Filii nostri, pauci vitio parentum, audient cives fecisse ferrum acrius, ferrum quod debet uti contra graves Persas, et filii nostri audiet pugnas.

Written by Robert Amstutz

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