Multas per gentes et multa per aequora vecta,
O—quam te memorem, dea?—vel volans croceis per
Caelum roscida pinnis, sive reliqueris amnes
Virginiae lutulentos, sive cacumina Montis
Alcis, res nostras afflictas restituebas.
Fortunas emendavisti colloquiorum,
Saepe magistris et sociis aere auxiliata es,
Et quotiens referunt fluctus nos in mare saevi,
Vi ingenioque tuo navis portum occupat aequa.
Grati igitur, Judith, plaudamus perpetuo te.
           Ante diem vii Idus Octobres
       Anno MMDCCLXII ab Urbe Condita

Borne through many peoples and through many seas,¹
O—how shall I call you, goddess?²—or flying through the sky,
dewy on saffron wings,³ whether you have left the muddy
rivers of Virginia, or the Elk Mountain⁴ peaks,
you would restore our battered affairs.
You improved the fortunes of our conferences,
often with money you gave help to teachers and our members,
and as often as savage billows carry us back into open sea,
by your force and talent our ship makes port on an even keel.⁵
Grateful, therefore, Judith, we applaud you forever.

¹Cf. Catullus 101.1
²Cf. Vergil, Aeneid 1.327
³Cf. Aeneid 4.700
⁴The Elk Mountains are a range in Colorado that includes Aspen Mountain.
⁵Cf. Horace, Odes 1.14.1-2