quid tum Roma fuit, tubicen vicina Curetis cum quateret lento murmure saxa Iovis? murus erant montes; ubi nunc est Curia saepta, bellicus ex illo fonte bibebat equus, atque ubi nunc terris dicuntur iura subactis, stabant Romano pila Sabina Foro.
What then was Rome when the trumpeter of Cures made quake with his lingering blast Joves neighbouring cliffs? For a wall there were hills; where buildings now hedge in the Senate House, the war-horse drank from the spring there, and where justice is now dispensed to a subject world, Sabine javelins stood in the Roman forum.
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