Ausonius on winning

Ausonius shows battles won without weapons, or anything else really.Armatam vidit Venerem Lacedaemone Pallas. “Nunc certemus,” ait, “iudice vel Paride.” Cui Venus: “Armatam tu me, temeraria, temnis, quae, quo te vici tempore, nuda fui?”Minerva saw Venus armed in Sparta.“Now let us fight,” she said, “with Paris as judge, even.”To whom Venus: “reckless are you to scorn me, now I am armed, I, who at the time when I last defeated you, was naked?”Armatam: armedVidit: she sawVenerem: VenusLacedaemone: in SpartaPallas: Pallas Athene / MinervaNunc: nowCertemus: let us competeAit: she saidIudice vel Paride: even with Paris as judgeCui: to whomTe: youMe: meTemeraria: recklessTemnis: you scornQuae: who, which, that (relative pronoun)Quo … tempore: at the time whenTe vici: I defeated youNuda fui: I was naked

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