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“How the three hundred Braves, ’twas known of old, did with a thousand Romans battle wage, in the good times when virile deeds and bold which Viriátus did, illumed his age: He snatcht memorious triumphs from their hold, bequeathing this our noblest heritage, the Brave though few shall ne’er the Many fear, as sithence thousand times we proved full clear.