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Or could know the shared commerce of the bank
And the contests of the villas defending their master for themselves,
Neither did Sirius the Dog Star, representing the heat of summer bark at him with its hot star,
Nor did the heavy descendant of the leafy Nemea a reference to the Nemean lion, symbolizing extreme heat look upon it.
Such is the winter in these dwellings; thus the cold breaks the insolent Sun,
And the house does not swelter in the Pisan year a reference to the climate.
or "seen"

10 *Pleasure herself wrote the roof with tender hand.
Then Venus anointed the roof-peaks with Idalian juices scents from the mountain in Cyprus sacred to Venus,
And smoothed the locks, and left a charming grace
In the seats, and forbade her winged sons to depart.
O day long to be remembered! With what mind do I recall
The joys? How weary were my eyes from so many miracles?
How mild the talent of the soil? What beauty granted by art
To these blessed places? Nature never indulged herself more broadly;
The high groves have brooded over the swift shallows;
The deceptive image responds from the foliage,
And the same shadow flees through the long waters:
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The Anio himself (a wonder to believe) both below and above
Stony, here lays aside his swollen rage and foaming
Murmurs, as if fearing to disturb the peaceful Vopiscus,
And the Pierian Muses' days, and the slumbers craving songs.
or "on both sides of the house"

The shore *on both sides of the home: nor does the very mild river
Divide you, the mansion keeps the alternate banks.
They do not complain that things are foreign to them, or that the river stands in the way.
Let fame now boast of the Sestian straits the Hellespont, and the swum sea,
And the dolphins joined to the bold youth Leander.
Here is eternal peace, here are no laws of storms,
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Nowhere is there heat in the waters. Here it is permitted to transmit gazes
And voices, and almost hands; thus do the waves move Chalcis,