"Cum pressus ab hoste clauditur externis miles Romanus in oris, effugit exiguo nocturna pericula uallo, et subitus rapti munimine caespitis agger praebet securos intra tentoria somnos: tu tantum audito bellorum nomine, Roma, desereris; nox una tuis non credita muris."
January 1, 1970
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