Fulgent in brightness afar, to many a host of the Godheads
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Stretching her soft smooth arms she vowed to devoutly bestow,
What time strengthened by joy of new-made wedlock the monarch
Bounds of Assyrian land hurried to plunder and pill;
Bearing of nightly strife new signs and traces delicious,
Won in the war he waged virginal trophies to win.
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Loathsome is Venus to all new-paired? Else why be the parents'
Pleasure frustrated aye by the false flow of tears