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A Portuguese fleet becomes the object of conflict between Roman gods.

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In days of hunger and of dire distress, sickness, bolts, arrows, thunder, lightning-glint, when the sore seasons and sad sites oppress his soldiers, rendering services sans stint; it seemeth salvage act of wild excess, of heart inhuman, bosom insolent, to make last penalty of Laws atone for sins our frailty and our love condone.

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