943 When the wife of Tithonus, with the abandoned brother of Trojan Assaracus, has sent out her own first rays of daylight three times in the endless globe of heaven, then the goddess has come, entwined with thousands of flowers in variegated garlands: the stage has a tradition of free jest. And the sacred festival of Flora moves into the Kalends of May; then, I will return to it; now, a more illustrious work urges me.
949 Vesta! banish the day! Vesta has been welcomed on the threshold of her relative: so the lawful fathers have decreed. Apollo has a part of his house, another part has gone to Vesta; what is left over after those things, the third himself occupies. Stand erect, laurels of the Palatine house! And may the house endure under the adornment of an oak garland: one house keeps three gods with no beginning and no end.