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 1  T-II|    for Apollo at the Secular Games~those that each age sees
 2  T-II|   turn your power to foolish games,~examining my idle things
 3  T-II|     if I’d confessed it, the games also sow~seeds of iniquity:
 4  T-II|    together:~and those other games – I’ll not describe them
 5  T-II|   Check the cost of your own games, Augustus,~you’ll scan many
 6 T-III|     light weapons,~play ball games, or with the swiftly circling
 7  ExII|     in my weakened body,~the games of youth that pleased, no
 8   Ind|      1 Patron of the Secular Games, the Ludi Saeculares. They
 9   Ind|     Elians presided over the Games at Olympia.~Book EII.X:1-
10   Ind| worshipped there. There were games in honour of the god every
11   Ind|    years covering successive Games at Olympia, celebrated every
12   Ind|     by a serpent. The Nemean games were founded in his memory.~ ~
13   Ind|      winning athletes at the Games. ~Book EIV.XVI:1-52 Imitated
14   Ind|    presided over the Olympic games until c 580BC.~Book TII:
15   Ind|    the space between Olympic Games, of five years each.~ ~Pleiades~
16   Ind|   hostile climate.~ ~Secular Games, Ludi saeculares~The centennial
17   Ind|    saeculares~The centennial games (17BC) celebrated by Augustus
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