Crossword-Solution: NEPTUNO 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Quo, quo scelesti ruitis? aut cur dexteris Aptantur enses conditi? Parumne campis atque Neptuno super Fusumst Latini sanguinis, Non ut superbas invidae Carthaginis 5 Romanus arcis ureret, Intactus aut Britannus ut descenderet Sacra catenatus via, Sed ut secundum vota Parthorum sua Urbs haec periret dextera? 10 Neque hic lupis mos nec fuit leonibus Umquam nisi in dispar feris.

The _Neptuno_ was at length driven out of her line, with a loss of some two hundred killed and wounded.

Thus left without an immediate antagonist, Hawke's attention was attracted by another Spanish vessel, the _Poder_, of the same nominal force as the _Neptuno_, and following her in the order; with which four or five of the seven British ships, that should have closed the interval between Mathews and Rowley, were carrying on a distant and circumspect engagement, resembling in caution that of the _Dorsetshire_ and her followers.

While the battle still raged fiercely, Admiral Dumanoir, in the "Formidable," was steering away to the north-westward, followed by the "Mont Blanc," "Duguay-Trouin," and "Scipion." But two ships of his division, the "Neptuno" and the "Intrépide," had disregarded his orders, and turned back to join in the fight, working the ships' heads round by towing them with boats.