Neron, Orestaes, Alkmaion, maetroktonai.
Neonymphon 616 Neron, idian maeter apekteinen.
> Orestes and Alcaeon—Nero too,
> The lustful Nero, worst of all the crew,
> Fresh from his bridal—their own mothers slew.
Quis neget Aeneae magna de stirpe Neronem?
Sustulit hic matrem: sustulit 617 ille patrem.
> Sprung from Aeneas, pious, wise and great,
> Who says that Nero is degenerate?
> Safe through the flames, one bore his sire; the other,
> To save himself, took off his loving mother.
Dum tendit citharam noster, dum cornua Parthus,
Noster erit Paean, ille Ekataebeletaes.
> His lyre to harmony our Nero strings;
> His arrows o’er the plain the Parthian wings:
> Ours call the tuneful Paean,—famed in war,
> The other Phoebus name, the god who shoots afar. 618
Roma domus fiet: Vejos migrate, Quirites,
Si non et Vejos occupat ista domus.
> All Rome will be one house: to Veii fly,
> Should it not stretch to Veii, by and by. 619(370) But he neither made any inquiry after the authors, nor when information was laid before the senate against some of them, would he allow a severe sentence to be passed. Isidorus, the Cynic philosopher, said to him aloud, as he was passing along the streets, “You sing