Epigram XXXI. — To the Source of the Danube. By Command of the Emperor Valentinian

I, Danube, whose head was once concealed in lands remote, now flow at full length under your sway: where 'midst the Suebi I pour forth my chill source, where I divide the Pannonias pregnant with empire and where with wealth of waters I open my mouth to the Scythian sea, all my streams I cause to pass beneath your Roman yoke. To Augustus shall the chief palm be given, but the next to Valens: he too shall find out sources — even thine, O Nile.