Social Commentaries
Book XII, Epigram 8 (Ker)
Translated by Walter C. A. Ker (1919–20) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1919–20)
What time Rome, Goddess of Earth and of the nations, that has no peer and no second, was of late joyfully counting Trajan's future years through so many generations, and saw a soldier strong, young, and warlike in so great a chief, glorying in such a governor, she said: "Ye rulers of the Parthians and chiefs of the Seres, Thracians, Sauromatians, Getians, Britons, I can show you a Caesar: come."
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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