Est ubi gloria nunc Babylonia, nunc ubi dirus Nabauchodonosor 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 the dreadful Nabauchodonosor Cyrus, Darius, and he is the strength? Now, when Regulus, or Romulus, or where Remus? At once for Rome by its name, naked names are all we have not.