Happy Birthday, Rome

According to tradition, this day, April 21st, is the day on which Romulus and Remus founded the city of Rome in 753 BC. Felix dies natalis, Roma!


And, just for the occasion, I'll throw in some Roman poetry (by Ovid) translated into charming Elizabethan English (by Christopher Marlowe):

Were Love the cause, it's like I shoulde descry him,
Or lies he close, and shoots where none can spie him?
T'was so, he stroke me with a slender dart,
Tis cruell love turmoyles my captive hart.
Yeelding or striving doe we give him might,
Lets yeeld, a burden easly borne is light.

-Amores 1.2.5-11