ipse magistratum tibi consulis, ipse tribunal contulit auratumque togae donavit amictum, cuius religio tibi displicet, o pereuntum adsertor divum, solus qui restituendos Vulcani Martisque dolos Venerisque peroras Saturnique senis lapides Phoebique furores, Iliacae matris Megalesia, Bacchica Nysi, Isidis amissum semper plangentis Osirim mimica ridendaque suis sollemnia calvis, et quascumque solent Capitolia claudere larvas.
It is he that conferred on thee the office of consul and the judgment-seat, and gave thee the gold-wrought toga to wear, he whose religion does not win thy favour, thou upholder of gods outworn, who alone dost plead for the restoration of those tricks of Vulcan and Mars and Venus, old Saturns stones and Phoebus prophetic frenzies, the Ilian Mothers Megalesian festival, the Bacchic rites of the Nysian god, the farcical ceremonies of Isis ever mourning for her lost Osiris, which even her own bald-heads must laugh at, and all the goblins which the Capitol by custom keeps within it.
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