certavit Mutinae quassata Placentia bello Mantua mittenda certavit pube Cremonae, Mantua, Musarum domus atque ad sidera cantu evecta Aonio et Smyrnaeis aemula plectris.
Placentia, though crippled by the war, vied with Mutina; and Cremona sent forth her sons in rivalry with Mantua'Mantua, the home of the Muses, raised to the skies by immortal verse, and a match for the lyre of Homer.
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