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"text": "Et expoliata sum, et facta sum masculus, et coeperunt me favisores mei oleo defricare, quomodo solent in agone; et illum contra Aegyptium video in afa volutantem.",
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"translation": "And I was stripped and made masculine; and my protectors began to rub me down with oil, just as is the custom for a competition. And on the opposite side, I saw that Egyptian rolling in the dust.",
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