nunc ait ambiguum facies de mercibus omen, cum spes in pretium munera dispar agit, et me defunctis seu malis tradere divis, sive decus busti seu velis esse deum; subdita namque tibi est magni reverentia sacri atque eadem retines funera nostra manu.
Now, said the statue, you will make a puzzling forecast about your wares, when two far different prospects set a price upon your work, and you will be in doubt whether you prefer to consign me to the dead or to the gods, whether you wish me to adorn a tomb or to be a deity. To your arbitrament is submitted the reverence of a great religious act; in your hand also you hold my death-warrant.
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