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Ausonius shows battles won without weapons, or anything else really.
Armatam vidit Venerem Lacedaemone Pallas.
“Nunc certemus,” ait, “iudice vel Paride.”
Cui Venus: “Armatam tu me, temeraria, temnis,
quae, quo te vici tempore, nuda fui?”
Minerva saw Venus armed in Sparta.
“Now let us fight,” she said, “with Paris as judge, even.”
To whom Venus: “reckless are you to scorn me, now I am armed,
I, who at the time when I last defeated you, was naked?”
Armatam: armed
Vidit: she saw
Venerem: Venus
Lacedaemone: in Sparta
Pallas: Pallas Athene / Minerva
Nunc: now
Certemus: let us compete
Ait: she said
Iudice vel Paride: even with Paris as judge
Cui: to whom
Te: you
Me: me
Temeraria: reckless
Temnis: you scorn
Quae: who, which, that (relative pronoun)
Quo … tempore: at the time when
Te vici: I defeated you
Nuda fui: I was naked
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Ausonius shows battles won without weapons, or anything else really.
Armatam vidit Venerem Lacedaemone Pallas.
“Nunc certemus,” ait, “iudice vel Paride.”
Cui Venus: “Armatam tu me, temeraria, temnis,
quae, quo te vici tempore, nuda fui?”
Minerva saw Venus armed in Sparta.
“Now let us fight,” she said, “with Paris as judge, even.”
To whom Venus: “reckless are you to scorn me, now I am armed,
I, who at the time when I last defeated you, was naked?”
Armatam: armed
Vidit: she saw
Venerem: Venus
Lacedaemone: in Sparta
Pallas: Pallas Athene / Minerva
Nunc: now
Certemus: let us compete
Ait: she said
Iudice vel Paride: even with Paris as judge
Cui: to whom
Te: you
Me: me
Temeraria: reckless
Temnis: you scorn
Quae: who, which, that (relative pronoun)
Quo … tempore: at the time when
Te vici: I defeated you
Nuda fui: I was naked

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