49.5016
But the Great Mother, also, says
my opponent, being summoned from Phrygian Pessinus in precisely
the same way by command of the seers, was a cause of
safety and great
joy to the people. For, on the one
hand, a long-
powerful enemy
was thrust out from the position he had
gained in
5017
| 5017
Lit., “from the possession of Italy.” |
Italy; and, on the other, its ancient
glory was restored to the city by glorious and illustrious
victories,
and the boundaries of the empire were extended
far and wide, and their
rights as freemen were torn from races,
states, peoples without number,
and the yoke of
slavery imposed on them, and many other things
accomplished at
home and abroad established the renown and
dignity of
the race with irresistible
power. If the histories tell the
truth, and do not insert what is false in their accounts of events,
nothing else truly
5018
| 5018 So
all edd. to Orelli, adding -em to the ms. quid. [See, concerning Pessinus, p.
492, supra.] |
is said to have been brought from
Phrygia, sent by King Attalus, than a stone, not large, which could be
carried in a man’s hand without any pressure—of a dusky and
black colour—not smooth, but having little corners standing out,
and which to-day we all see put in that image instead of a face, rough
and unhewn, giving to the figure a countenance by no means
lifelike.
5019
| 5019
Lit., “a face too little expressed with imitation.” |
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