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

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There puissant armies show and proudly tread that Orient region which Hydaspes laves; a smooth brow’d Capitayne is at the head, and with his leafy Thyrsus leads his Braves. By him was Nysa-city ’stablishèd hard by the margin of the murm’urous waves; so proper was the God e’en Semelé her son beholding would have said, “ ’Tis he!”

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