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An ornamental woodcut decorative block or initial contains a classical-style mask surrounded by scrolling foliage.
Did the work flow, or did the image shaped in the Sicilian furnaces leave weary Steropes a Cyclops and Brontes a Cyclops?
Or did the hands of Germanicus Domitian fashion you for us in the manner of Pallas Minerva? Just as the Rhine river bordering Germania recently saw you holding the reins, and the high house of the Daci people of Dacia stood astonished?
Now come, let the former fame, the name known through the ages of the Dardanian Trojan Horse, admire you, for which Dindymon a mountain in Phrygia and Ida a mountain in Crete/Phrygia decreed sacred with hewn foliage.
The walls of Pergama Troy would not have contained this one, even with the breaches,
Nor with a mixed crowd of boys and unwed girls,
Not even Aeneas himself, nor would great Hector lead it.
Add that the one killing? the Achaeans Greeks,
This one ...?