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

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“This is my happy land, my home, my pride; where, if the Heav’ens but grant the pray’er I pray for glad return and every risk defied, there may my life-light fail and fade away. This was the Lusitania, name applied by Lusus or by Lysa, sons, they say, of ancient Bacchus, or his boon compeers, eke the first dwellers of her eldest years.

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