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

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“Nor less of force and fraud they showed, whene’er kindled were other wars by Fate’s decree, or when Spain’s warlike sons to fight would fare, or there, when others poured down Pyrenee: And thus, in fine, to thrust of foreign spear ne’er bowed they, owning alien mastery ne’er yet was known, I swear no man can tell us to Hannibals like these e’er came Marcellus.

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