Tene magis salvum populus velit an populum tu? servet in ambiguo, qui consulit et tibi et Urbi, Iuppiter.
May Jove, who watches with the same good-will O'er you and Rome, preserve the secret still, Whether the heart within you beats more true To Rome and to her sons, or theirs to you!
FromPanegyricus Augusti, quoted byHorace,Epistles, I, xvi, 27;John Conington,Satires, Epistles and Ars Poëtica (1869); see also: Norbert Guterman,A Book of Latin Quotations (1966), p. 118