Marphisa first began in grateful strain:
"Unconquered Caesar, glorious and august, Who, to Alcides' strait from Indian main, Mak'st Scythian's pale and Aethiop's race adust Revere thy Christian cross of snowy grain, -- Of earthly monarchs thou most sage and just-- Hither thy glory, which no limits bound, Has brought me from the world's extremest ground;