Igitur, ut supra dictum est, aemulatus Patris Liberi non gloriam solum, quam ex illis gentibus deportaverat, sed etiam pompam, sive illud triumphus fuit ab eo primum institutus sive bacchantium lusus, statuit imitari animo super humanum fastigium elato.
Therefore, as was said before, rivalling not only the glory of Father Liber which he had carried off from those nations, but also his procession, whether that was a triumph first invented by that god or the sport of drunken revellers, he decided to imitate it, in a spirit  raised above the level of human greatness.
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