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 1     6|     swear not, I, in warlike cuirass pent;~But to afford my aid
 2    14|   prayed.~ ~  CXVIII~He in a cuirass, hard and strong, was drest;~
 3    17|     Than braced the unworthy cuirass on his breast;~Or hastened
 4    17|   gazing wight,~Whom they of cuirass and of helmet bare,~And
 5    18|      Meanwhile, of the first cuirass and the new~Possest, as
 6    19|      breast:~She pierced the cuirass and the mail below;~But
 7    20|     and spear and shield and cuirass bear;~With the intent to
 8    22|     needed-were~A shield and cuirass of the diamond rock.~One
 9    23|   farther than the rest,~His cuirass; through the greenwood wide
10    24|      the saddle-bow, through cuirass, went.~ ~ LXV~And, but that
11    26|  disappear:~Before it vanish cuirass, helms and shields,~As the
12    27|   sheen;~Nor without martial cuirass on her breast,~Find I, that
13    30| cleft in twain;~Beneath, his cuirass opened to the stroke,~And
14    30|    the left side of his good cuirass gored,~And found a passage
15    37|     sun recede,~They don the cuirass and remount the steed:~ ~
16    40|   which through iron case~Of cuirass or of casque was wont to
17    41| spells avail)~Shears helmet, cuirass, shield, and all below,~
18    41|    Fallen is his shield, his cuirass split; but harmed~The warrior
19    45|    his shield, now helm, now cuirass scatter,~While straight
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