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Pasiphae , the daughter of the Sun , wife of Minos , had not preformed sacrifices for the goddess Venus for so many years . On account of this , Venus threw an unspeakable love into her so that she would love a bull . When Daedalus had come into this as an exile , she sought help from him . He made her a wooden cow and led in the hide of a real cow , in which she lay with the bull . Out of this union , she birthed the Minotaur with a bull ' s head and with a human lower part . Then Daedalus made a labyrinth with an inescapable exit for the Minotaur , in which he has been enclosed .

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Meanwhile , a bareness of crops and scarcity happened at Thebes on account of the sins of Oedipus , and Tiresias , having solved why Thebes was being hassled in this way , responded if anyone from the dragon race had survived and died for his fatherland , he would free [ them ] from the plague . Them Menoeceus , father of Jocasta , threw himself down from the walls . While these things are being done at Thebes , Polybus died at Corinth . With this having been heard , Oedipus began to bear it badly , thinking that he father had died . Periboea made clear to him about his adoption . Likewise Menoetes the old man who had exposed him recognized that he was the son of Laius from the scars on his feet and ankles . With this thing having been heard , Oedipus , after he saw that he had done too many sins , he took the clothes pins from the dress of his mother and deprived himself of his eyes , and handed over the kingdom to his sons on alternate years and fled from Thebes with his daughter Antigone as his guide .

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Interim Sphinx Typhonis in Boeotiam est missa , quae agros Thebanorum vexabat ; ea regi Creonti simultatem constituit , si carmen , quod posuisset , aliquis interpretatus esset , se inde abire , si autem datum carmen non solvisset , eum se consumpturam dixit neque aliter de finibus excessuram . Rex re audita per Graeciam edixit , qui Sphingae carmen solvisset , regnum se et Iocasten sororem ei in coniugium daturum promisit . Cum plures regni cupidine venissent et a Sphinge essent consumpti , Oedipus Laii filius venit et carmen est interpretatus ; illa se praecipitavit . Oedipus regnum paternum et Iocasten matrem inscius accepit uxorem , ex qua procreavit Eteoclen et Polynicen , Antigonam et Ismenen .

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As I heard these things , I was not able to close my eyes anymore , but , with the light being bright , I fled to our Gaius ' house like a robbed innkeeper . And after I came to that spot in which the clothes had been made into stone , I found nothing except blood . But as I came home , my soldier was lying in bed like a bull , and a doctor was taking care of his neck . I understood that he was a werewolf , and afterwards I was not able to share bread with him , not even if you killed me . Let others think whatever they see about this . If I am lying , let me have your angry gods .

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Hac pugna pugnata Romam profectus est nullo resistente . In propinquis urbi montibus moratus est . Cum aliquot ibi dies castra habuisset et Capuam reverteretur , Q . Fabius Maximus , dictator Romanus , in agro Falerno ei se obiecit . 2 Hic clausus locorum angustiis noctu sine ullo detrimento exercitus se expedivit ; Fabioque , callidissimo imperatori , dedit verba . Namque obducta nocte sarmenta in cornibus iuvencorum deligata incendit eiusque generis multitudinem magnam dispalatam immisit . Quo repentino obiecto visu tantum terrorem iniecit exercitui Romanorum , ut egredi extra vallum nemo sit ausus . 3 Hanc post rem gestam non ita multis diebus M . Minucium Rufum , magistrum equitum pari ac dictatorem imperio , dolo productum in proelium fugavit . Tiberium Sempronium Gracchum , iterum consulem , in Lucanis absens in insidias inductum sustulit . M . Claudium Marcellum , quinquies consulem , apud Venusiam pari modo interfecit . 4 Longum est omnia enumerare proelia . Quare hoc unum satis erit dictum , ex quo intellegi possit , quantus ille fuerit : quamdiu in Italia fuit , nemo ei in acie restitit , nemo adversus eum post Cannensem pugnam in campo castra posuit .

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Post annum Caesar Romam regressus quarto se consulem fecit et statim ad Hispanias est profectus , ubi Pompeii filii , Cn . Pompeius et Sex . Pompeius , ingens bellum praeparaverant . Multa proelia fuerunt , ultimum apud Mundam civitatem , in quo adeo Caesar paene victus est , ut fugientibus suis se voluerit occidere , ne post tantam rei militaris gloriam in potestatem adulescentium , natus annos sex et quinquaginta , veniret . Denique reparatis suis vicit . Ex Pompeii filiis maior occisus est , minor fugit .