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: armed

Vidit: she saw

Venerem: Venus

Lacedaemone: in Sparta

Pallas: Pallas Athene / Minerva

Nunc: now

Certemus: let us compete

Ait: she said

Iudice vel Paride: even with Paris as judge

Cui: to whom

Te: you

Me: me

Temeraria: reckless

Temnis: you scorn

Quae: who, which, that (relative pronoun)

Quo … tempore: at the time when

Te vici: I defeated you

Nuda fui: I was naked

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