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Pasiphae , Solis filia , uxor Minois , sacra deae Veneris per aliquot annos non fecerat . Ob id , Venus amorem infandum illi obiecit , ut taurum amaret . In hoc Daedalus exsul cum venisset , petiit ab eo auxilium . Is ei vaccam ligneam fecit et verae vaccae corium induxit , in qua illa cum tauro concubuit ; ex quo compressu Minotaurum peperit capite bubulo parte inferiore humana . Tunc Daedalus Minotauro labyrinthum inextricabili exitu fecit , in quo est conclusus .

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From there he went to the Cyclops Polyphemus , the son of Neptune . There was a prophecy for him from the prophet Telemus , son of Eurymus , that he should beware that he would be blinded by Odysseus . This guy had one eye in the middle of his forehead and would feast on human flesh . After he had led his flock back into the cave , he placed a huge stony mass opposite the door . He enclosed Odysseus with his companions and began to eat his companions . When Odysseus saw that he was not able to resist his hugeness and ferocity , he intoxicated him with wine , which he had accepted from Maro and said that he was called No One . Therefore when he burned his eye with a burning trunk , he called together the other Cyclopes with his shout and , with the cave having been shut , he said to them " No one is blinding me ! " They , believing that he was talking for the purpose of making jokes , ignored him . But Odysseus tied his men to the flock and he himself to a ram and thus they went out .

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Haec ut audivi , operire oculos amplius non potui , sed luce clara Gai nostri domum fugi tanquam copo compilatus ; et postquam veni in illum locum , in quo lapidea vestimenta erant facta , nihil inveni nisi sanguinem . Ut vero domum veni , iacebat miles meus in lecto tanquam bovis , et collum illius medicus curabat . Intellexi illum versipellem esse , nec postea cum illo panem gustare potui , non si me occidisses . Viderint quid de hoc alii exopinissent ; ego si mentior , genios vestros iratos habeam . "

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' Pater meus ' inquit ' Hamilcar , puerulo me , utpote non amplius VIIII annos nato , in Hispaniam imperator proficiscens Carthagine , Iovi optimo maximo hostias immolavit . Quae divina res dum conficiebatur , quaesivit a me , vellemne secum in castra proficisci . Id cum libenter accepissem atque ab eo petere coepissem , ne dubitaret ducere , tum ille ' Faciam ' , inquit ' si mihi fidem , quam postulo , dederis . ' Simul me ad aram adduxit , apud quam sacrificare instituerat , eamque ceteris remotis tenentem iurare iussit numquam me in amicitia cum Romanis fore . Id ego ius iurandum patri datum usque ad hanc aetatem conservavi .

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With this fight having been fought , he set out for Rome with no one resisting . He has been delayed in the mountains close to the city . When he had held camp there for so many days and had turned back to Capua , Quintus Fabius Maximus , the Roman dictator , threw himself against him in the Falerian field . He , having been closed off by the narrowness of the terrain , extracted himself at night without any harm of his army , and he tricked Fabius , the cleverest commander . For , with night having been led in , he lit on fire the sticks , having been tied on the horns of cattle , and sent down a great multitude having wandered around . With this sudden sight having been thrown in , he threw in such great terror to the army of the Romans with the result that no one dared to go outside of the intrenchment . After this thing having been done , in not so many days , he routed Marcus Minucius Rufus , the Master of the Horse with equal power to the dictator , having been led into a battle by a trick . He killed Marcus Claudius Marcellus , consul for the fifth time , at Venusia in a similar way . It would take a long time to count all his battles . For this reason , this alone will be enough to be said , from which it is able to be known how great he was : as long as he was in Italy , no one resisted him in the battle lines , no one set up camps in the battlefield against him after the Battle of Cannae .