Tum validis flexos incurvant viribus arcus pro se quisque viri et depromunt tela pharetris, primaque per caelum nervo stridente sagitta Hyrtacidae iuvenis volucris diverberat auras, et venit adversique infigitur arbore mali.
Then with might and main they bend their bows into a curve, each for himself, and draw shafts from quivers. And first through the sky, from the twanging string, the dart of the son of Hyrtacus cleft the fleet breezes, reached its mark, and struck full in the wood of the mast.