630He had made, too, the mother wolf lying stretched in the green cave of Mars, the twin boys playing around her, hanging at her teats and suckling their mother without fear, and she, her smooth neck bent back, caressing them in turn and shaping their bodies with her tongue. 635Not far from here he had added Rome, and the Sabine women lawlessly carried off from the seated crowd of the theatre when the great Circus games were held, and a new war suddenly arising for the sons of Romulus and aged Tatius and stern Cures. 639Afterwards the same kings, their strife laid aside, stood armed before the altar of Jupiter holding bowls, and joined treaties by sacrificing a sow.
642Not far from there swift four-horse chariots, driven apart, had torn Mettus asunder (but you, man of Alba, should have kept your word!), and Tullus was dragging the false man's entrails through the wood, and the brambles dripped, sprinkled with blood. 646Porsenna too was ordering them to take back the banished Tarquin and was pressing the city with a mighty siege: the sons of Aeneas were rushing onto the sword for freedom. 649You would have seen him like one indignant and like one threatening, because Cocles dared to tear down the bridge and Cloelia, breaking her bonds, swam the river. 652At the top Manlius, guardian of the Tarpeian citadel, stood before the temple and held the lofty Capitol, and the palace bristled fresh with the thatch of Romulus.
655And here a silver goose, fluttering through gilded colonnades, was crying that the Gauls were on the threshold. 657The Gauls were at hand through the thickets and were seizing the citadel, protected by the darkness and the gift of shadowy night: golden is their hair and golden their clothing, they shine with striped cloaks, then their milk-white necks are encircled with gold, each brandishes two Alpine javelins in his hand, their bodies protected by long shields. 663Here he had hammered out the leaping Salii and the naked Luperci, and the woollen-tufted caps, and the shields fallen from heaven; chaste matrons in cushioned carriages were leading the sacred processions through the city.
666Far from these he adds also the seats of Tartarus, the deep gates of Dis, and the punishments of crimes, and you, Catiline, hanging from a threatening cliff and trembling at the faces of the Furies; and the righteous set apart, and Cato giving them laws.