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Erat in urbe villa magna sed villa mala . In nocte fragor vinculorum non proximus est in principio , tum proximus esse videtur . Tum apparebat phantasma . Phantasma in manibus catenas gerebat .
Inde inhabitantes villae vigilabant ob metum ; mors vigiliam sequebantur . In die , quamquam no erat phantasma , memoria phantasmae in oculis errabat . Causa timoris erat magis quam timor erat . Villa inde deserta et illi monstro dabatur ; villam vendere prohibebatur .
Venit ad urbem philosophus nomine Athenodorus , legit titulum villae , et quod quantitas pecuniae erat suspecta , poscebat multas quaestiones . Graeci viri Athenodoro fabulam dicebant et philosophus magis villam emere volebat .

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Hannibal , Hamilcaris filius , Carthaginiensis . Si verum est , quod nemo dubitat , ut populus Romanus omnes gentes virtute superarit , non est infitiandum Hannibalem tanto praestitisse ceteros imperatores prudentia , quanto populus Romanus antecedat fortitudine cunctas nationes . Nam quotienscumque cum eo congressus est in Italia , semper discessit superior . Quod nisi domi civium suorum invidia debilitatus esset , Romanos videtur superare potuisse . Sed multorum obtrectatio devicit unius virtutem . Hic autem velut hereditate relictum odium paternum erga Romanos sic conservavit , ut prius animam quam id deposuerit , qui quidem , cum patria pulsus esset et alienarum obtrectatio devicit unius virtutem . Hic autem velut hereditate relictum odium paternum erga Romanos sic conservavit , ut prius animam quam id deposuerit , qui quidem , cum patria pulsus esset et alienarum opum indigeret , numquam destiterit animo bellare cum Romanis .

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Sic Hannibal , minor V et XX annis natus imperator factus , proximo triennio omnes gentes Hispaniae bello subegit . Saguntum , foederatam civitatem , vi expugnavit . Tres exercitus maximos comparavit . Ex his unum in Africam misit , alterum cum Hasdrubale fratre in Hispania reliquit , tertium in Italiam secum duxit . Saltum Pyrenaeum transiit . Quacumque iter fecit , cum omnibus incolis conflixit . Ad Alpes posteaquam venit , quae Italiam ab Gallia seiungunt , quas nemo umquam cum exercitu ante eum praeter Herculem Graium transierat , quo facto is hodie saltus Graius appellatur . Alpicos conantes prohibere transitu concidit . Loca patefecit et effecit , ut ea elephantus ornatus ire posset , qua antea unus homo inermis vix poterat repere . Hac copias traduxit in Italiamque pervenit .

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With such a cohort of soldiers having been made , the fleet is led by each side into battle . With the battle line of these having been drawn up , before the signal of fight was given , Hannibal sends a messenger in a small boat with a messenger’s staff . When he reached the ships of the enemies , and , showing a message , proclaims that he is seeking the king , immediately he has been led to Eumenes , because no one was doubting that what had been written was about peace . With the ship of the commander having been declared , the messenger took himself back to his own men . But Eumenes , with the letter having been opened , found nothing in it , except the things which pertained in order to irritate him . And yet he did not wonder at the cause of this nor did he discover it ; nevertheless , he did not doubt to start the battle immediately . All of the Bithynians , because of the command of Hannibal , rushed in a charge against the ship of Eumenes . When the king was not able to withstand the force of them , he sought safety by flight . When the remaining Pergamene ships had pressed down their enemies sharply , suddenly jars began to be thrown into them . At first , the things having been thrown stirred up laughter in those fighting , nor were they able to understand why this happened . However , after they saw that their ships had been filled with snakes , having been terrified by this new thing , they turned their ships and brought themselves back to their naval camps . Thus Hannibal overcame the forces of the Pergamene by a plan .

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Catullus 86
Quintia’s lovely to many . To me she’s white , long ,
and straight : I acknowledge that’s so .
But I don’t agree that’s beauty : there’s no charm ,
there’s not a speck of good taste in all of that long body .
Lesbia’s lovely , possessed of all that’s most beautiful ,
besides she alone’s stolen all charm from all other women .

Catullus 72
Once you said you preferred Catullus alone ,
Lesbia : would not have Jupiter before me .
I prized you then not like an ordinary lover ,
but as a father prizes his children , his family .
Now I know you : so , though I burn more fiercely ,
yet you’re worth much less to me , and slighter .
How is that , you ask ? The pain of such love
makes a lover love more , but like less .

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Let us live , my Lesbia , let us love ,
and all the words of the old , and so moral ,
may they be worth less than nothing to us !
Suns may set , and suns may rise again :
but when our brief light has set ,
night is one long everlasting sleep .
Give me a thousand kisses , a hundred more ,
another thousand , and another hundred ,
and , when we’ve counted up the many thousands ,
confuse them so as not to know them all ,
so that no enemy may cast an evil eye ,
by knowing that there were so many kisses .

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dixit et eliso percussis aere pennis
inpiger umbrosa Parnasi constitit arce
eque sagittifera prompsit duo tela pharetra
diversorum operum : fugat hoc , facit illud amorem ;
quod facit , auratum est et cuspide fulget acuta ,
quod fugat , obtusum est et habet sub harundine plumbum .
hoc deus in nympha Peneide fixit , at illo
laesit Apollineas traiecta per ossa medullas ;
protinus alter amat , fugit altera nomen amantis
silvarum latebris captivarumque ferarum
exuviis gaudens innuptaeque aemula Phoebes :
vitta coercebat positos sine lege capillos .
multi illam petiere , illa aversata petentes
inpatiens expersque viri nemora avia lustrat
nec , quid Hymen , quid Amor , quid sint conubia curat .