en nomen melius maiusque triumphis! iamque petita aderat Latia portante Cybele puppe; atque ante omnes, magno cedente senatu, obvius accitis properabat Scipio sacris, qui, genitus patruo ductoris ad Africa bella tunc lecti, multa fulgebat imagine avorum isque ubi longinquo venientia numina ponto accepit supplex palmis Tuscique sonora Thybridis adduxit sublimis ad ostia puppim, femineae tum deinde manus subiere, per amnem quae traherent celsam religatis funibus alnum.
That was a title more glorious and higher than any triumph. So Cybele was invited, and now she was nearing land, on board a Roman vessel, when Scipio, given precedence by all the noble senators, made haste to meet the foreign deity. His father was uncle of the Scipio just chosen to conduct the war in Africa; and his lineage was long and illustrious. When he had welcomed the goddess after her long voyage with hands held up in prayer and, standing high, had brought the vessel to the loud-sounding mouth of Tuscan Tiber, the hands of women were next employed, to draw the tall ship up the stream with ropes.
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