| Tertia pars orbis, fratres, Europa vocatur,
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A third part of the world is called Europe, brothers:
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| Moribus ac linguis varias et nomine gentes
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By customs, tongues and name dividing various peoples,
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| Distinguens cultu, tum relligione sequestrans.
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Then separating them by their religious practice.
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| Inter quas gens Pannoniae residere probatur,
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Among them lived the people of Pannonia,
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| Quam tamen et Hunos plerumque vocare solemus.
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Whom we are generally accustomed to call Huns.
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| Hic populus fortis virtute vigebat et armis,
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This brave folk flourished both by courage and by arms;
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| Non circumpositas solum domitans regiones,
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Subduing not just those lands which surrounded theirs,
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| Litoris oceani sed pertransiverat oras,
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They had extended even to the seashore’s limits;
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| Foedera supplicibus donans sternensque rebelles.
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They granted pacts to suppliants, but crushed resisters.
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| Ultra millenos fertur dominarier annos.
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They held sway, it is said, more than a thousand years.
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