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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">Citation:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">''qui ferox bellotamen inter arma<br>sive iactatem religarat udo litore navim<br>…<br>et Lycum nigris oculis nigroque crine decorum''</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">Latin</td>
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<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">''[[The Fortune of War]]'', page 284</td>
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<th style="text-align: right; padding: 0 8px 8px 0;">Meaning:</th>
<td style="text-align: left; padding: 0 0px 8px 0;">(Nb, the poet is addressing his lyre — a musical instrument — and Broke/Maturin skip over some lines crucial for the overall sense)<br><nowiki>[</nowiki>It was Alcaeus the stout patriot from Lesbos who tuned his lyre,<nowiki>]</nowiki><br>when he had just been in the fighting at war,<br>or had anchored his storm-tossed ship on the damp shore.<br><nowiki>[</nowiki>He sang of the Muses, of Bacchus and fair Venus, and of Cupid, still her pageboy<nowiki>]</nowiki><br>and also to Lycus, with back eyes and black hair adorned.</td>
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Horace ''Odes I''.

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