seu nos procinctus maneat, seu pace quietas dictemus leges, seu debellata duorum colla tyrannorum media calcemus in urbe, agnoscas, regina, libens mea signa necesse est, in quibus effigies crucis aut gemmata refulget aut longis solido ex auro praefertur in hastis.
Whether we must still be ready for battle, or are to lay down laws in peace and quietness, or to trample under foot in the midst of Rome the heads of the two usurpers we have vanquished, thou must needs, O queen, be ready to acknowledge my standards, on which the figure of the cross leads the van, either gleaming in jewels or fashioned of solid gold on the long shafts.
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