Testis est Italia, quam ille ipse victor L. Sulla huius virtute et subsidio confessus est liberata.
Italy is my witness, which that conquerer, Lucius Sulla himself, confessed had been freed.
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Testis est Sicilia, quam multis undique cinctam periculis non terrore belli,
Sicily is my witness, which he rescued when it was surrounded on all sides by many dangers, not though the terror of war
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, sed consili celeritate explicavit. Testis est Africa, quae, magnis oppressa hostium copiis
but through the quickness of his plan. Africa is my witness, which, having been overwhelmed by the numerous troops of enemies
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eorum ipsorum sanguine redundavit. Testis est Gallia, per quam legionibus nostris iter in Hispaniam Gallorum internecione patefactum est.
overflowed with the blood of those same enemies. Gaul is my witness, through which a road into Spain was opened to our legions by the slaughter of Gauls.
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Testis est Hispania, quae, saepissime plurimos hostis ab hoc superatos prostratosque conspexit.
Spain is my witness, which had repeatedly seen our very many enemies defeated and laid low by this man.
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Testis est iterum et saepius Italia, quae cum servili bello taetro periculosoque premeretur,
Again and again, Italy is my witness, which when it was afflicted by the from and dangerous slave war,
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ab hoc auxilium absente expetivit: quod bellum exspectatione eius attentuatum atque imminutum est, adventu sublatum ac sepultum.
sought help form this man though far away: a war which was reduced and diminished by the expectation of him, was eliminated and buried by his arrival.
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Card 2
Front
Testis est Sicilia, quam multis undique cinctam periculis non terrore belli,
Back
Sicily is my witness, which he rescued when it was surrounded on all sides by many dangers, not though the terror of war
Card 3
Front
, sed consili celeritate explicavit. Testis est Africa, quae, magnis oppressa hostium copiis
Back
Card 4
Front
eorum ipsorum sanguine redundavit. Testis est Gallia, per quam legionibus nostris iter in Hispaniam Gallorum internecione patefactum est.
Back
Card 5
Front
Testis est Hispania, quae, saepissime plurimos hostis ab hoc superatos prostratosque conspexit.
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