Ausonius on winning

Ausonius shows battles won without weapons, or anything else really. Armatam vidit Venerem Lacedaemone Pallas. “Nunc certemus,” ait, “iudice vel Paride.” Cui Venus: “Armatam tu me, temeraria, temnis, quae, quo te vici tempore, nuda fui?” Minerva saw Venus armed in Sparta. “Now let us fight,” she said, “with Paris as judge, even.” To whom Venus: “reckless are you to scorn me, now I am armed, I, who at the time when I last defeated you, was naked?” Armatam: armed Vidit: she saw Venerem: Venus Lacedaemone: in Sparta Pallas: Pallas Athene / Minerva Nunc: now Certemus: let us compete Ait: she said Iudice vel Paride: even with Paris as judge Cui: to whom Te: you Me: me Temeraria: reckless Temnis: you scorn Quae: who, which, that (relative pronoun) Quo … tempore: at the time when Te vici: I defeated you Nuda fui: I was naked