dic, quibus hunc scribis titulum, nisi quod trucisOrci imperium verae ceu maiestatis adoras? en quibus inplicita squalebat regia summi imperii tractis maiorum ab origine sacris, cum princeps gemini bis victor caede tyranni pulchra triumphali respexit moenia vultu.
Tell me, to whom do you carve this inscription, but that you revere the throne of grim Orcus as though it were the seat of real majesty? Such are the rites, drawn from the early days of our ancestors, which entangled and defiled the imperial abode of supreme power, when an emperor who had twice been victorious and slain two usurpers, turned his eyes in triumph on her noble battlements.
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