New A (@Horsebreath)
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Diminished by their parents sins, our children will hear that citizens sharpened swords by which the Parthian foe should have perished, will hear of civil war. Which god will the people call to the aid of their falling empire? With what prayer will the Cestal Virgins beseech their goddess, dead to their litanies? To whom will Jupiter assign the role of expiating our sin? Horace ode 1.2
