Mentula has the equivalent of thirty acres of pasture,
Forty of arable land; the rest are waters.
Why should he not rival Croesus in his wealth
When he has so many attractions in his estates,
Meadows, fields, huge woods and deep swamps
As far as the Hyperboreans and sea of Ocean?
All these things are sizeable, but he himself is greatest of all,
Not a man, but in fact a huge threatening MENTULA.