Juvencus, Caius Vettius Aquilinus, Evangeliorum libri quattuor

Conpleuit genetrix et Ioseph omnia mirans,

his mother had fulfilled, and Joseph, marvelling at everything,

Ad patriam laeti repedant puerumque reportant.

they joyfully go back to their homeland and carry the boy home.

Gens est ulterior surgenti conscia soli,

There is a people farther off, acquainted with the rising sun,

Astrorum sollers ortusque obitusque notare;

skilled at marking the risings and settings of the stars;

Huius primores nomen tenuere Magorum.

its leading men have held the name of Magi.

Tunc hinc delecti Solymos per longa uiarum

Then men chosen from there, along the long roads, to Jerusalem

Deueniunt regemque adeunt orantque doceri,

come down, approach the king, and ask to be told