49.50165016 But the Great Mother, also, says
my opponent, being summoned from Phrygian Pessinus in precisely
the same way by command of the seers, was a cause of safety and great
joy to the people. For, on the one hand, a long-powerful enemy
was thrust out from the position he had gained in50175017 Italy; and, on the other, its ancient
glory was restored to the city by glorious and illustrious victories,
and the boundaries of the empire were extended far and wide, and their
rights as freemen were torn from races, states, peoples without number,
and the yoke of slavery imposed on them, and many other things
accomplished at home and abroad established the renown and dignity of
the race with irresistible power. If the histories tell the
truth, and do not insert what is false in their accounts of events,
nothing else truly50185018 is said to have been brought from
Phrygia, sent by King Attalus, than a stone, not large, which could be
carried in a man’s hand without any pressure—of a dusky and
black colour—not smooth, but having little corners standing out,
and which to-day we all see put in that image instead of a face, rough
and unhewn, giving to the figure a countenance by no means
lifelike.50195019