[26-27] rerum terminus: cf. Verg. Aen. 4.614, hic terminus haeret. The phrase suggests the god Terminus whose refusal to yield to Jupiter was taken as an omen of the stability of Roman power. Livy, 1.55; Ov Fast. 2.667.
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