Est ubi gloria nunc Babylonia, nunc ubi dirus Nabuchodonosor et Darii vigor illeque Cyrus? Nunc ubi Regulus aut ubi Romulus aut ubi Remus? Stat Roma pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus.
Where is the glory now Babylon, now, where are red as the vigor of Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, Cyrus, and he is? Where is now Regulus, or Romulus, or where Remus? At once for Rome by its name, naked names are all we have not.