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The next month, the proprætor overpassed,
To Gaul's mainland; and journeys many days,
Towards Rome. Being come now to the City Sovereign;
And his relation, to the emperor Claudius,
Made; he sent laureate letters, to the Senate;
(Which sits, to hear them read, without the walls,
In temple of Bellona.) The Ovation,
Then, common sentence of those conscript sires,
Decrees, to Cæsar's thrice victorious legate,
In the Britannic warfare, Aulus Plautius.
To Gaul's mainland; and journeys many days,
Towards Rome. Being come now to the City Sovereign;
And his relation, to the emperor Claudius,
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(Which sits, to hear them read, without the walls,
In temple of Bellona.) The Ovation,
Then, common sentence of those conscript sires,
Decrees, to Cæsar's thrice victorious legate,
In the Britannic warfare, Aulus Plautius.
He, myrtle-crowned, sith, with magnific pomp;
And merry sound of flutes, and high-day shouts,
And solemn chant; (lo, imperial Claudius walks,
Britannicus, at the left hand of Aulus!)
Upmounts, to temple-arx, of Rome's trine gods!
And merry sound of flutes, and high-day shouts,
And solemn chant; (lo, imperial Claudius walks,
Britannicus, at the left hand of Aulus!)
Upmounts, to temple-arx, of Rome's trine gods!
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