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... foret Babylon spolianda tropaeis Ausoniis umbraque erraret Crassus inulta...


refers to the Ausones, a branch of the Oscans that the Greeks first met in Magna Graecia. Double metonymy where Ausoniis = Italis = Romanis (from Getty, Bristol Classical Press)


 
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