In foribus sacris primoque in limine templi captivi currus, belli decus, armaque rapta pugnantum ducibus saevaeque in Marte secures, perfossi clipei et servantia tela cruorem claustraque portarum pendent; hic Punica bella, Aegates cernas fusaque per aequora classe exactam ponto Libyen testantia rostra; hic galeae Senonum pensatique improbus auri arbiter ensis inest, Gallisque ex arce fugatis arma revertentis pompa gestata Camilli; hic spolia Aeacidae, hic Epirotica signa et Ligurum horrentes coni parmaeque relatae Hispana de gente rudes Alpinaque gaesa.
At the sacred doors and on the threshold of the templed captured chariots were hung, glorious spoils of war, and armour taken from hostile generals, and axes ruthless in battle, and perforated shields, and weapons to which the blood still clung, and the bolts of city-gates. Here one might see the wars with Carthage, the Aegatiane islands, and the ships prows which testified that Carthage had been driven from the sea when her fleet was defeated on the water. Here were the helmets of the Senones and the insolent sword that decreed the weight of gold paid down,f and the armour that was borne in the procession of Camillus on his return, when the Gauls had been repulsed from the citadel; here were the spoils of the scion of Aeacus, and here the standards of the Epirote,a the bristling plumed helmets of the Ligures, the rude targets brought back from Spanish natives, and Alpine javelins.
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