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

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“Yet ne’er was Sancho, no, such profl’igate pest as was that Nero wedded with a boy, who in foul incest showing horrid zest his mother Agrippina dared enjoy; Ne’er with strange cruel arts did he molest the liege, nor gar’d the torch his town destroy; he was no waster, no Heliogabálus, no woman-king like soft Sardanapálus.

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