Testis Mater Idaea, quae adventu suo et probavit matronae castitatem et urbem metu hostili liberavit; testes equestrium fratrum in lacu, sicut se ostenderant, statuae consecratae, qui anheli spumantibus equis atque fumantibus de Perse victoriam eadem die qua fecerant nuntiaverunt; testis ludorum offensi Iovis de somnio plebei hominis iteratio: et Deciorum devotio rata testis est; testis et Curtius, qui equitis sui vel mole vel honore hiatum profundae voraginis coaequavit.
Witness the Idaean Mother who at her coming vindicated a matrons chastity and freed the city from fear of the enemy; witness the statues of the horsemen brothers consecrated, even as they appeared, in the lake waters, who, breathless on their foaming and smoking steeds, announced the victory over Perses on the same day on which they had achieved it: witness the revival of the games in honour of offended Jupiter, thanks to the dream of a common plebeian; witness the devotion of the Decii, ratified by Heaven; and witness too Curtius and the gulf, whose yawning mouth horse and rider, or the honour due to their devotion, closed.
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