Quae superimposito moles geminata colosso stat Latium complexa forum? caelone peractum fluxit opus? Siculis an conformata caminis effigies lassum Steropen Brontenque reliquit? an te Palladiae talem, Germanice, nobis effinxere manus qualem modo frena tenentem Rhenus et attoniti vidit domus ardua Daci? Nunc age fama prior notum per saecula nomen Dardanii miretur equi, cui vertice sacro Dindymon et caesis decrevit frondibus Ide.
What is this mass that stands embracing the Latian Forum, doubled by the colossus on its back? Did it glide from the sky, a finished work? Or did the effigy, molded in Sicilian furnaces, leave Steropes and Brontes weary? Or did Pallas hands fashion you for us, Germanicus, in such guise as the Rhine of late and the lofty home of the astounded Dacian saw you holding your reins? Come now, let an earlier fame wonder at the renown of the Dardanian horse, known through the ages, for whom Dindymons sacred peak and Ida were diminished, their leafage felled.
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