...time, men had not yet heard the trumpet blown, not listened to the sword blade clanking on the anvil. hanc olim veteres vitam coluere Sabini, hanc Remus...pulcherrima Roma, septemque una sibi muro circumdedit arces. ante etiam sceptrum Dictaei regis et ante impia quam caesis gens est epulata iuvencis, aureus hanc...

...context. The idealized life of the farmer is being compared to a version of the golden age (G. 2. 532-38): hanc olim veteres vitam coluere Sabini, hanc Remus...pulcherrima Roma, septemque una sibi muro circumdedit arces. ante etiam sceptrum Dictaei regis et ante impia quam caesis gens est epulata iuvencis, aureus hanc...

...'rater (533), and as the manner in which Etruria and Rome grew great. The reference to Rome (534-5), scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma, \ septemque una sibi muro circumdedit arces, clearly has strong ktistic overtones. Line 534 might in fact mean 'Rome was made the finest thing on...

...(532ff. ) : hanc olim ueteres uitam coluere Sabini, hanc Remus et frater; sic fortis Etruria creuit scilicet et rerum facta est pulcherrima Roma, septemque una sibi muro circumdedit arces. Such was the life once lived by the Sabines of old, and by Remus and his brother; this surely was how...