Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!

There should be no strife with the vanquished or the dead.

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.

Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.

Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses

Each draws to his best-loved.