DESIDERATUS CUNCTIS GENTIBUS: The Incarnation of the Word of God inaugurates the Lordship of Christ over the Church and the Nations Discite justitiam moniti, et non temnere divos. Venditit hic auro patriam, dominumque potentem imposuit, fixit leges pretio atque refixit; hic thalamum invasit natæ vetitosque hymenæos; ausi omnes immane nefas ausoque potiti. Learn righteousness, and dread the avenging deities. To tyrants others have their country sold, Imposing foreign lords, for foreign gold; Some have old laws repealed, new statutes made, Not as the people pleased, but as they paid. – Æn., VI, 620-624