tum senior talis referebat pectore voces: quid, si quis caestus ipsius et Herculis arma vidisset tristemque hoc ipso in litore pugnam? haec germanus Eryx quondam tuus arma gerebat; (sanguine cernis adhuc sparsoque infecta cerebro) his magnum Alciden contra stetit; his ego suetus, dum melior vires sanguis dabat, aemula necdum temporibus geminis canebat sparsa senectus.
Then the old man spoke thus from his breast: What if any had seen the gloves and arms of Hercules himself, and the fatal feud on this very shore? These arms your brother Eryx once wore; you see them still stained with blood and spattered brains. With these he faced great Alcides; with these was I wont to fight, while sounder blood gave me strength, nor yet had envious age sprinkled my temples with snow.