Note 36 — Chapter VI · THE SIBYL AND THE SHADES.
Reading edition
But none of the recognised translations seem to come so near the spirit of the original as Lord Macaulay’s paraphrase—for of course it is only a paraphrase—in his lay of “The Prophecy of Capys:”—
“Leave to the sons of Carthage The rudder and the oar; Leave to the Greek his marble nymphs And scrolls of wordy lore: Thine, Roman, is the pilum; Roman, the sword is thine; The even trench, the bristling mound, The legion’s ordered line.”