P Sufenas Virius Lupus
Though small, great am I,
driving fear away;
protecting households
each night and all day.
In Athens they know
my name most holy,
I am of such might
I save it solely.
I have kept the shrines
of gods from all taint,
I have made men mad
with no sex’s restraint.
On banks at Hir-Wer
in the Nile’s coursing
Antinous drowned
by fate’s sad forcing.
I gave him city
for memory’s sake,
I gave it my name
for a settler’s stake.
Therefore I will sing
my nightly refrain —
no trifling small thing
your offer of grain!
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