Nos tamen rectam comite arte proram, nil tumescentes veriti procellas, sistimus portu, geminae potiti fronde coronae, Quam mihi indulsit populus Quirini, blattifer vel quam tribuit senatus, quam peritorum dedit ordo consors iudiciorum, Cum meis poni statuam perennem Nerva Traianus titulis videret, inter auctores utriusque fixam bybliothecae; Quamque post, visus prope, post bilustre tempus accepi, capiens honorem, qui patrum ac plebis simul unus olim iura gubernat.
But I, fearing not at all the swelling storms, have guided my prow with the skill that never leaves me, and now bring her to rest in the harbour, having gained the leafage of a double crown. One crown was bestowed on me by Quirinus people and by the purple-clad senate, and by the learned company of judges unanimously, When Nerva Trajan saw my statue, with all my honours inscribed, set up for all time, firmly fixed amidst the writers of the two libraries. The second crown was that which ten years later I was awarded when received into the Presence, on the occasion when I took up that office which, since of old, singly controls the rights of senate and people alike.
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