Cease all, whose actions ancient bards expressed:
A brighter valour rises in the West.
Cesse tudo o que a Musa antiga canta,
Que outro valor mais alto se alevanta.
Que outro valor mais alto se alevanta.
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Cedite Romani scriptores, cedite Grai!
Nescioquid maius nascitur Iliade. | Make way, you Roman writers, make way, Greeks!
Something greater than the Iliad is born. | Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xxxiv, 65–66