§3.13.1Cum mihi pomiferis coniunx foret orta Faliscis, §3.13.2Moenia contigimus victa, Camille, tibi.
Since my wife had arisen from the fruit-bearing Faliscans, we reached the walls conquered, Camillus, by you.
§3.13.3Casta sacerdotes Iunoni festa parabant §3.13.4Et celebres ludos indigenamque bovem; §3.13.5Grande morae pretium ritus cognoscere, quamvis §3.13.6Difficilis clivis huc via praebet iter.
Chaste priestesses were preparing holy feasts for Juno and famous games and a native cow; it is a great reward for delay to learn the rites, although a road difficult with slopes offers a path hither.
There stands an ancient grove, very dark with dense trees; behold — you would grant that a deity is present in the place.
An altar receives the prayers and votive incense of the pious — an altar made by ancient, artless hands.
§3.13.11Hinc, ubi praesonuit sollemni tibia cantu, §3.13.12It per velatas annua pompa vias; §3.13.13Ducuntur niveae populo plaudente iuvencae, §3.13.14Quas aluit campis herba Falisca suis, §3.13.15Et vituli nondum metuenda fronte minaces, §3.13.16Et minor ex humili victima porcus hara, §3.13.17Duxque gregis cornu per tempora dura recurvo.
Hence, when the pipe has sounded before with solemn song, the annual procession goes through the veiled streets; snowy heifers are led while the people applaud, which the Faliscan grass nourished in its own fields, and calves not yet threatening with a forehead to be feared, and a smaller victim, a pig from the humble pen, and the leader of the flock with a horn curved over his hard temples.
§3.13.18Invisa est dominae sola capella deae; §3.13.19Illius indicio silvis inventa sub altis §3.13.20Dicitur inceptam destituisse fugam.
Only the she-goat is hated by the mistress goddess; by its betrayal, found under the deep woods, she is said to have abandoned her begun flight.
§3.13.21Nunc quoque per pueros iaculis incessitur index §3.13.22Et pretium auctori vulneris ipsa datur.
Now also, by boys, the betrayer is assailed with javelins, and she herself is given as a reward to the author of the wound.
§3.13.23Qua ventura dea est, iuvenes timidaeque puellae §3.13.24Praeverrunt latas veste iacente vias.
Where the goddess is to come, young men and timid girls sweep beforehand the wide streets with trailing garments.
§3.13.25Virginei crines auro gemmaque premuntur, §3.13.26Et tegit auratos palla superba pedes; §3.13.27More patrum Graio velatae vestibus albis §3.13.28Tradita supposito vertice sacra ferunt.
Maidenly hair is pressed with gold and gems, and a proud robe covers golden feet; veiled in white garments in the Greek custom of their ancestors, they carry the handed-down sacred objects on their placed-beneath heads.
The mouths of the people keep silence when the golden procession comes, and she herself follows her own priestesses.
§3.13.31Argiva est pompae facies; Agamemnone caeso §3.13.32Et scelus et patrias fugit Halaesus opes §3.13.33Iamque pererratis profugus terraque fretoque §3.13.34Moenia felici condidit alta manu.
The appearance of the procession is Argive; Agamemnon having been slain, Halaesus fled both the crime and his father's wealth, and now, a fugitive having wandered over both land and sea, he founded high walls with a fortunate hand.
§3.13.35Ille suos docuit Iunonia sacra Faliscos.
He taught his own Faliscans the Junonian rites.
§3.13.36Sint mihi, sint populo semper amica suo!
May they be friendly to me, and always to their own people!