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“Erst willed the Gods, who willed away the right to Philip’s son, that o’er this Orient part he hold such power, and display such might which bound the world ’neath yoke of angry Mart: But shall I tamely suffer Fate’s despight, who lends these weaklings pow’er of arm and art, Macedon’s hero, Roman brave and I before the Lusian name be doomed to fly?