Ergo insperata tandem tellure potiti, / lustramurque Jovi, votisque incendimus aras, / Actiaque Iliacis celebramus litora ludis. / Exercent patrias oleo labente palaestras / nudati socii: juvat evasisse tot urbes / Argolicas, mediosque fugam tenuisse per hostes.
Saved beyond hope and glad the land is won, / and lustral rites, with blazing altars, pay / to Jove, and make the shores of Actium gay / with Ilian games, as, like our sires, we strip / and oil our sinews for the wrestler's play. / Proud, thus escaping from the foemen's grip, / past all the Argive towns, through swarming Greeks, to slip.