praeterea, fidos dominus si dividat enses, pandere quis centum valeat frenare, maniplos inter missus eques, quis praecepisse cohorti, quem deceat clari praestantior ordo tribuni, quisnam frenigerae signum dare dignior alae; mille etiam praenosse vices, an merserit agros Nilus, an imbrifero Libye sudaverit Austro: cunctaque si numerem, non plura interprete virga nuntiat ex celsis ales Tegeaticus astris, quaeque cadit liquidas Iunonia virgo per auras et picturato pluvium ligat ara gyro quaeque tuas laurus volucri, Germanice, cursu fama vehit praegressa diem tardumque sub astris Arcada et in medio linquit Thaumantida caelo.
Furthermore, if our lord should be distributing his faithful swords, to announce who is qualified to control a century (a Knight sent among infantry), who to command a cohort, who is right for the higher rank of illustrious Tribune, who more worthy to give the password to a troop of cavalry; also to forecast a thousand turns'has Nile drowned the fields, has Libya sweated with the rainy South Wind? If I were to enumerate all, no more messages does the winged Tegean announce from the high stars with his go-between wand, nor Junos maiden as she falls through the liquid air and binds the rainy atmosphere with her colored arc, nor Fame that bears your laurels, Germanicus, outstripping the sun in her rapid flight, leaving the slow Arcadian beneath the stars and Thaumas daughter in mid sky.
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