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Citation: qui ferox bellotamen inter arma
sive iactatem religarat udo litore navim
…
et Lycum nigris oculis nigroque crine decorum
Language: Latin
References: The Fortune of War, page 284
Meaning: (Nb, the poet is addressing his lyre — a musical instrument — and Broke/Maturin skip over some lines crucial for the overall sense)
[It was Alcaeus the stout patriot from Lesbos who tuned his lyre,]
when he had just been in the fighting at war,
or had anchored his storm-tossed ship on the damp shore.
[He sang of the Muses, of Bacchus and fair Venus, and of Cupid, still her pageboy]
and also to Lycus, with back eyes and black hair adorned.

Notes:

Horace Odes I.

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