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

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“This in his judgments rig’orous and severe, plunder, advoutries, murtherers supprest: To stay with cruel grasp Crime’s dark career, bred sole assurèd solace in his breast: A Justiciary, not by love but fear, he guarded Cities from haught tyrant-pest; their doom more robbers dree’d by his decrees than Theseus slew, or vagueing Hercules.

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