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

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“But now five other suns had come and gone, since from our landfall went we forth to plow seas to the seaman still unseen, unknown, while from astern the breezes favouring blow; when, as a night closed in, all careless strown the Crew kept watch upon the cutting Prow, deep’ening the welkin’s darkling hues, a cloud sails high o’erhead, and seems the sky to shroud.

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