See Parca on Wiktionary
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"english": "Because these people, wide-ruling and proud in war,\nwould come to destroy Libya: The Fates [were] thus to spin.\n(Rome would defeat Carthage in Libya; the Fates spun, measured and cut the metaphorical threads of life. See: Parcae. Notes: regem is an abbreviation of present active participle regentem or regnantem, “ruling”; bello is an ablative of respect, “in respect to war”; excidio is a dative of purpose, “for the destruction.” The grammar and idiom of sic volvere Parcas is variously interpreted, e.g.: “thus the Fates were spinning,” “the Fates had so decreed.”)",
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"text": "hinc populum, lātē rēgem bellōque superbum,",
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"roman": "ventūrum excidiō Libyae: sīc volvere Parcās.",
"text": "hinc populum, lātē rēgem bellōque superbum,",
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