“So spoke the King: ‘Be with me, as I found my City, Jupiter, Father Mars, and Mother Vesta: and all you Gods whom piety summons, take note. Let my work be done beneath your auspices. May it last long, and rule a conquered world, all subject, from the lands of the rising to the setting sun!’ Jupiter added His omen to Romulus’ prayer, with thunder on the left, and His lightning flashing leftward in the sky…”
— Ovid, Fasti, Book IV
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