Thus raised, his glorious offspring Julius view’d. + 

Beneficently great, and scattering good, + 

Deeds, that his own surpass’d, with joy beheld, + 

And his large heart dilates to be excell’d. + 

What though this prince refuses to receive + 

The preference, which his juster subjects give; + 

Fame uncontroll’d, that no restraint obeys, + 

The homage, shunn’d by modest virtue, pays, + 

And proves disloyal only in his praise. + 

Though great his sire, him greater we proclaim: + 

So Atreus yields to Agamemnon’s fame; + 

Achilles so superior honours won, + 

And Peleus must submit to Peleus’ son: + 

Examples yet more noble to disclose, + 

So Saturn was eclipsed, when Jove to empire rose: + 

Jove rules the heavens, the earth Augustus sways; + 

Each claims a monarch’s, and a father’s praise. + 

Celestials, who for Rome your cares employ; + 

Ye gods, who guarded the remains of Troy; + 

Ye native gods, here born, and fix’d by fate; + 

Quirinus, founder of the Roman state; + 

Oh parent Mars, from whom Quirinus sprung; + 

Chaste Vesta, Caesar’s household gods among + 

Most sacred held; domestic Phoebus, thou, + 

To whom with Vesta chaste alike we bow; + 

Great guardian of the high Tarpeian rock; + 

And all ye powers, whom poets may invoke; + 

Oh grant, that day may claim our sorrows late, + 

When loved Augustus shall submit to fate, + 

Visit those seats, where gods and heroes dwell, + 

And leave, in tears, the world he ruled so well! + 