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

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If lust of lucre and of lordship led your course to conquer far and foreign lands, see you not Hermus and Pactólus shed adown their fertile valleys aureate sands? Assyria, Lydia, spin the golden thread, lurk veins of sheeny ore in Africk strand: Let these rich treasures sluggish sprites arouse since rouse you not the rights of Holy House.

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