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

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Those fierce projectiles, of our days the work, murtherous engines, dire artilleries, against Byzantine walls, where dwells the Turk, should long before have belcht their batteries. Oh, hurl it back in forest-caves to lurk where Caspian crests and steppes of Scythia freeze, that Turkish ogre-prog’eny multiplied by op’ulent Europe’s policy and pride.

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