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The wheel of time rolls downward through various changes.

— Silius Italicus

Per varios præceps casus rota volvitur ævi.

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Men leave arms and legs behind, severed by the frost, and the cruel cold cuts off the limbs already broken.

Doubt not a woman's hardihood; no danger is too great for wedded love to face.

Groundless superstition ill becomes an army; Valour is the only deity that rules in the warrior's breast.

Manhood is tested by trial, and valour climbs unterrified the rocky path and difficult ascent that leads to glory.

Valor, gradually overpowered by the delicious poison of sloth, grows torpid.

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