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	LATIN	ENGLISH
SOUTHERN SIDE	«SIXSTUS V PONT. MAX. / OBELISCVM VATICANVM / DIS GENTIVM / IMPIO CULTV DICATVM / AD APOSTOLORVM LIMINA / OPEROSO LABORI TRANTVLIT / ANNO MDLXXXVI / PONT. II»	“Sixtus V Pontifex Maximus, with great effort moved the Vatican obelisk, once dedicated to the impious cult of pagan gods, to the threshold of the Apostles in the second year of his pontificate, 1586”.
NORTHERN SIDE	SIXTVS V PONT. MAX. / CRVCI INVICTAE / OBELISCVM VATICANVM / AB IMPVRA SVPERSTITIONE / EXPIATVM IVSTIVS / ET FELICIVS CONSECRAVIT / ANNO MDLXXXVI / PONT. II	"Sixtus V Pontifex Maximus consecrated the Vatican obelisk, purged of filthy superstition, more justly and auspiciously to the invincible Cross, in the second year of his pontificate, 1586”
NORTHERN SIDE	«DOMINICUS FONTANA EX PAGO MILI / AGRO NOVO COMENSIS TRANSTULIT ET EREXIT»
NORTHERN SIDE	«PETRVS MACCARANIVS FABRICAE S. PETRI CVRATOR SEMITAM MERIDIANAM PVBLICAE COMMODITATI AERE PROPRIO F. ANN. MDCCCXVII»
EAST, TOWARDS THE CITY	«ECCE CRUX DOMINE / FUGITE / PARTES ADVERSAE / VICIT LEO / DE TRIBU IVDA»	“Behold the Cross of the Lord. Adversaries flee! The lion of the tribe of Juda, hath conquered”
WEST TOWARDS THE BASILICA	«CHRISTUS VINCIT / CHRISTUS REGNAT / CHRISTUS IMPERAT / CHRISTUS AB OMNI MALO / PLEBEM SUAM / DEFENDAT»	“Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ commands, Christ defends his people from all evil”
LATI EST e OVEST SOPRA LE AQUILE DI BRONZO	«DIVO CAESARI DIVI IULII F. AVGVSTO: TI. CAESARI DIVI AVGVSTI F. AVGVSTO / SACRUM»	“To the divine Augustus Caesar, son of the divine Julius, Augustus and Tiberius Caesar, son of the divine Augustus”