ipse, adstans curru atque auro decoratus et ostro, Martia praebebat spectanda Quiritibus ora: qualis odoratis descendens Liber ab Indis egit pampineos frenata tigride currus; aut cum Phlegraeis, confecta mole Gigantum, incessit campis tangens Tirynthius astra.
Scipio himself, erect in his chariot and splendid in purple and gold, gave to the citizens the spectacle of his martial countenance. So looked Bacchus, when he drove his car, wreathed with vine-leaves and drawn by tigers, down from the incense-breathing land of the Indians; and so looked Hercules, when he had slain the huge Giants and marched along the plains of Phlegra,a with his head reaching the stars.
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