nam quod partibus arma Bosphoranis grandi hinc surgere sentit apparatu, maestam Persida iam sonum ad duelli ripa Euphratide vix putat tuendam; qui cognata licet sibi astra fingens Phoebea tumeat propinquitate, mortalem hic tamen implet obsecrando.
for perceiving that an armament with a vast muster of warlike might is surging up from here to take the side of Constantinople, he thinks that Persia, depressed at the very sound of war, can scarcely be defended by the Euphrates bank; and although he feigns himself related to the stars, and vaunts his kinship with Phoebus the Sun, here in Bordeaux he plays a mortals part by making supplication.
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