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fulgens: in splendor; with stet predicatively. It had been gilded when rebuilt by Catulus after the conflagration of B.C. 83. Cf. fastigatis supra tectis auro puro fulgens praelucet Capitolium (Sen. Contr. 1.6.4). Cf. Verg. Aen. 8.347, Capitolia . . . |aurea nunc, olim silvestribus horrida dumis. triumphatisque: lit., triumphed over, subdued. English prose idiom would turn the participle by a clause coordinate with dare iura. 'Subdue and impose her laws upon.' possit: in her might.


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