Regia Sidoniae convivia laudat Elissae qui magnum Aenean Laurentibus intulit arvis, Alcinoique dapes mansuro carmine monstrat aequore qui multo reducem consumpsit Ulixem: ast ego, cui sacrae Caesar nova gaudia cenae nunc primujm dominamque dedit contingere mensam, qua celebrem mea vota lyra, quas solvere grates sufficiam? non, si pariter mihi vertice laeto nectat adoratas et Smyrna et Mantua lauros, digna loquar.
He that brought great Aeneas to the fields of Laurentum extols the royal feast of Sidonian Elissa, and he that wore out returning Ulysses with much seafaring portrays Alcinous repast in immortal verse. But I, now that for the first time Caesar has granted me novel joy of his sacred banquet, granted me to attain to his imperial board, with what lyre am I to celebrate my answered prayers, what thanks shall I avail to render? Not though Smyrna and Mantua both were to bind holy laurel on my happy head should I find fitting utterance.
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