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| − | ==Arnobius Adversus Nationes III 43==
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| − | Come, Dii Penates, come Apollo and Neptune and all You Gods, and by
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| − | Your powers may You mercifully turn aside this ill disease that
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| − | violently twists, scorches and burns our city with fever.
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| − | ==Horace Carmina 1.5.6-16==
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| − | (O Neptune)
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| − | Soon he'll...stare in wondering shock
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| − | At winds gone wild on blackening seas!
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| − | ...how false the breeze can blow.
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| − | Pity all those who have not yet found
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| − | Your glossy sweetness churned! My shipwreck's tale
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| − | Hangs, told in colours, on Neptune's temple wall, a votive
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| − | Plaque, with salvaged clothes
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| − | Still damp, vowed to the sea's rough lord.
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| − | ==Lucan Pharsalia 4.110-13==
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| − | May it be your will, O supreme Father of the Universe, and Yours
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| − | also, O Neptune, to Whom the lot fell second and gave an equal power
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| − | of the trident over the seas. May You above impede the air with
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| − | perpetual storm clouds; and You below forbid to turn back each surge
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| − | of the sea You send forth.
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| − | ==Ovid Metamorphoses 8.595-602==
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| − | O Neptune, who reigns over the realm of wandering waves, Bearer of
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| − | the Trident, come to our aid, I pray, and undo her father's
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| − | savagery. Neptune, grant her a safe haven, or else allow her to
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| − | become a place herself, (to live forever as one of Your nymphs).
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| − | ==Petronius Arbiter Satyricon 108==
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| − | O Gods, help us! Who takes up arms and beckons death amid the waves,
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| − | or inadequate to suffer one death? The sea's savagery is enough,
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| − | send no fresh floods to swell the savage waves.
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| − | ==Plautus Rodens 906-910: ==
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| − | Thanks be to Neptune my patron, who dwells in the fish-teeming salt
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| − | sea, for speeding me homeward from his sacred abode, well laden and
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| − | in a good hour.
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| − | ==Plautus Stichus 402-5==
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| − | Thanks be to Neptunus and the Tempestates, for returning me safe home
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| − | again, my venture a success! And also to Mercurius, who helped me in
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| − | my mercantile affairs and quadrupled my fortune with profit.
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| − | ==Plautus Trinummus 819-30 ==
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| − | O Neptunus, brother of Jove and Nereus, heartily and gladly I give
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| − | you praise and grateful thanks. And to you, Neptunus, before all
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| − | other gods I offer and accord you the highest thanks. I give you
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| − | praise, for you know how to treat men fairly; this befits the Gods.
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| − | ==Sillius Italicus Punica 15.159-62==
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| − | Neptune, divine Lord of the Trident, on whose high seas we begin to
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| − | safely, Father, and do not scorn to aid our labors. The war I now
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| − | draw across the sea is a just war.
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| − | ==Statius Achilleis 1.61-76==
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| − | Father and Master of the mighty Deep, look, Neptune, at what kind of
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| − | pitiful use You allow passage across the open seas. Safely under
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| − | sail pass the crimes of nations, ever since that Pagasean prow
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| − | ruptured the sanctions of law and the hallowed dignity of the sea
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| − | while carrying Jason in his quest for plunder. Grant that I may drive
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| − | off mourning, and that it not be pleasing to You that over so many
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| − | waves I should find but a single shore to inhabit a sepulcher on some
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| − | Ilian promontory.
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| − | ==Statius Silvae 3.2.1-49==
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| − | Gods, who delight in preserving bold ships and turning from them the
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| − | perils of windy seas, make smooth and placid these waters, and attend
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| − | with good council my vows, let not my words be drowned out by roaring
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| − | waves as I pray:
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| − | "O Neptune, grand and rare is the pledge we make to You, and
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| − | in what we commend into the depths of the sea. Young Maecius it is
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| − | whose body we commit to the sea, far from the sight of land, that he,
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| − | the better part of our souls, traverses the sea's length and depth
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| − | (to the Western Lands).
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| − | "Bring forth the benign stars, the Spartan brothers, Castor and
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| − | Pollux, to sit upon the horns of the yard arm. Let your light
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| − | illuminate sea and sky. Drive off your sister Helen's stormy star, I
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| − | pray, and expel it from all the heavens.
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| − | "And you azure Nereids of the seas, whose good fortune it was to
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| − | attain mastery of the oceans – may it be allowed to name you stars of
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| − | the seas – rise up from your glassy caverns near the foaming waves
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| − | that encircle Doris, and tranquilly swim circles around the shores of
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| − | Baiae where the hot springs abound. Seek after the lofty ship on
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| − | which a noble descendant of Ausonians, Celer, mighty at arms, is glad
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| − | to embark. Not long will you need to look, for she lately came
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| − | across the sea, leading a convoy laden with Egyptian wheat and bound
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| − | for Dicarcheis. First was she to salute Capreae and from her
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| − | starboard side offer a libation of Mareotic wine to Tyrrhenian
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| − | Minerva. Near to her, on either side, circle gracefully around her.
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| − | Divide your labors, some to tighten fast the rigging from masts to
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| − | deck, while others high above spread forth canvass sails to the
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| − | westerly Zephyrs. Still others replace some benches, others send
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| − | into the water the rudder by whose curved blade steers the ship.
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| − | Another plumbs the depths with leaden weights while others to fasten
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| − | the skiff that follows astern, and to dive down and drag the hooked
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| − | anchor from the depths, and one to control the tides and make the sea
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| − | flow eastward. Let none of the sea green sisterhood be without her
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| − | task.
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| − | "Then let Proteus of manifold shape and triformed Triton swim before,
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| − | and Glaucus whose loins vanished by sudden enchantment, and who, so
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| − | oft as he glides up to his native shores, wistfully beats his fish
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| − | tail on Anthedon's strand.
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| − | "But above all others you, Palaemon, with your goddess mother, be
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| − | favourable, if I have a passion to tell of your own Thebes, and sing
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| − | of Amphion, bard of Phoebus, with no unworthy quill.
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| − | "And may the father whose Aeolian prison constrains the winds, whom
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| − | the various blasts obey, and every air that stirs on the world's
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| − | seas, and storms and cloudy tempests, keep the North wind and South
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| − | and East in closer custody behind his wall of mountain, but may
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| − | Zephyr alone have the freedom of the sky, alone drive vessels onward
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| − | and skim unceasingly over the crests of billows, until he brings
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| − | without a storm your glad sails safe to the Paraetonian haven."
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| − | ==Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 1.188-203==
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| − | "Neptune, Lord of Waters, the highest honor falls to You, along the
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| − | shoreline, decked with dark blue ribbons, a bull Ancaeus fells, and
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| − | to Zephyris and Glaucus bulls as well, while a heifer is offered to
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| − | Thetis. No one is more deft than he with the ritual axe at the fat
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| − | necks of the cattle. Jason himself pours a goblet in libation to the
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| − | lord of the sea, saying, "O God, who with a nod can stir the ocean
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| − | foam, You who with Your salt water encompass the lands of the earth,
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| − | hear my prayer and grant me Your indulgence. I am the first of
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| − | mankind to venture forth on unlawful paths across Your waters, and
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| − | therefore, one might suppose, deserve the worst of Your storms. It
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| − | is not my own idea to presume in this way, to pile mountain on high
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| − | mountain and summon down from Olympus bolts of heavenly lightning.
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| − | Pelias' prayers are false. Do not be swayed by his vows, but know
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| − | that he devised and imposed his cruel commands to send me off to
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| − | Colchis and bring on me and my kin the bitterest grief. I beg of
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| − | You, therefore, mercy and justice. Let Your waters receive me: bear
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| − | me up and protect this ship and its crew of kings." Thus he spoke as
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| − | he poured the rich wine from the cup on the blazing coals of fire.
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| − | ==Valerius Flaccus Argonautica 1.667-80==
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| − | O You Gods who rule the waves and hold domain over the winds and
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| − | storms, you whose dwelling places reach from the ocean's depths to
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| − | the heights of heaven, and you Father of the Gods, who order the
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| − | spheres of the sky and govern the tides, behold a novelty here on
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| − | earth, a ship on the sea with armed men. For your rage I make
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| − | atonement and pray you look with indulgence upon us. Let me bring
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| − | these men safely to shore, and let me go home again where I shall
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| − | offer up on the sacrificial altars those rich feasts your mercy shall
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| − | have deserved. In every village and hamlet men shall acknowledge the
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| − | might of Neptune and pay you homage.
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| − | ==Virgil Aeneid 3.528-9==
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| − | Gods of land and sea, and of their potent storms, carry us on a
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| − | gentle breeze and breathe a favorable wind for us to follow.
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| − | ==Virgil Aeneid 5.235-8==
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| − | Gods, who commands the open seas, upon whose waves I hasten, gladly
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| − | before your altar on this shore will I arrange the sacrifice of a
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| − | white bull, this I vow as guarantor, to make his entrails an offering
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| − | and pour clear wine on the briny sea in your honour.
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| − | ==AE 1997, 977; Hamble, Britannia==
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| − | Lord Neptune, I commend to You the fellow who pounced upon what
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| − | rightfully belongs to Muconus and therefore I remit to You the six
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| − | silver coins along with the one who stole them, whether male or
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| − | female, whether a boy or a girl, therefore I give to You, Niske, and
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| − | for Neptune the life, health, and blood of him whose conscious will
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| − | be filled with guilt, his mind beguiled, he who violated me in here,
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| − | and who knows his guilt, in order that You ensnare this thief who
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| − | violate me in this way; may You attack him and consume his blood,
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| − | Lord Neptune.
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| − | Domine Neptune tibi dono hominem qui solidum involavit Muconi et
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| − | argentiolos sex ideo dono nomina qui decepit si mascel si femina si
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| − | puer si puella ideo dono tibi Niske et Neptuno vitam valitudinem
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| − | sanguem eius qui conscius fuerit eius deceptionis animus qui hoc
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| − | involavit et qui conscius fuerit ut eum decipias furem qui hoc
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| − | involavit sanguem eius consumas et decipias domine Neptune.
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