How would you translate this?

[greenbaggins]

Got a snippet of Latin from one of Juvenal's satires here. How would you translate it?

Tota licet veteres exornent undique cerae
Atria, nobilitas sola est, atque unica virtus.

 

[NaphtaliPress]

Here is Loeb classics take.

 

[Phil D.]

When it comes to Latin poetry I will completely defer to the experts... But here are some variations I found.

Though you deck your hall from end to end with ancient waxen images, Virtue is the one and only true nobility.​

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Although your whole atria display ancient wax portraits on every side, excellence is the one and only nobility.​

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Even though old wax figures adorn the palaces of the great families on all sides, their only and exclusive nobility is virtue.​

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You may decorate your entire atrium everywhere with ancient wax portraits, but the one and only nobility is excellence of character.​

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Although ancient portraits decorate your whole reception hall on every side, only virtue, nothing else, constitutes nobility.​

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You may line your whole hall with waxen busts, but virtue, and virtue alone, remains the one true nobility.​

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One author notes: "The veteres…cerae refer to the practice of displaying wax masks of successful ancestors in the foyer of a Roman house; these masks were reminders to the family of their own reputation but moreover to visitors, who would be intimidated and impressed by the family lineage."