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 To Rome for everything.
 [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.]  
 To Rome for everything.
 [Sp., Y a Roma pro todo.] 
You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.
 If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere 
live as they live elsewhere.
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 If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere 
live as they live elsewhere.
 [Lat., Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more;
  Si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi.] 
 Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.
 [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae
  Fumum et read more 
 Cease to admire the smoke, wealth, and noise of prosperous Rome.
 [Lat., Omitte mirari beatae
  Fumum et opes strepitumque Romae.] 
When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.
When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.
 Rome, Rome, thou art no more
 As thou hast been!
  On thy seven hills of yore
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 Rome, Rome, thou art no more
 As thou hast been!
  On thy seven hills of yore
   Thou sat'st a queen. 
 What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly 
overthrew.
 [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis
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 What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly 
overthrew.
 [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis
  Proditur unus iners angusto tempore vertit.] 
 Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
 [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!]  
 Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
 [Lat., Utinam populus Romanus unam cervicem haberet!] 
Rome was not built in a day.
Rome was not built in a day.