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“Ne’er with such Mars-taught art and furious flame, was Leucas seen in civil wars to glow, when to his Actium-fight Augustus came and laid th’ injurious Roman captain low; whom, deft Aurora’s reign and race to tame, far-famèd Nyle and Bactrus’ Scythic foe, despoilèd, ’spite victorious spoils and rare, that fair Egyptian not so chaste as fair;