The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus
We, maids and upright youths, are in Diana's care: upright youths and maids, we sing Diana.
Quintus.
'Sooth, of egregious sire for piety wondrous, thou tellest,
Who in the heart of his son lief was --! 30
Yet professed herself not only this to be knowing,
Brixia-town that lies under the Cycnean cliff,
Traversed by Mella-stream's soft-flowing yellow-hued current,
Brixia, Vérona's mother, I love for my home.