sed qua se fluvius retro labentibus undis eripit et nullo cuneos munimine vallat, turritas moles ac propugnacula dorso belua nigranti gestans, ceu mobilis agger, nutat et erectos attollit ad aethera muros.
But where the river, falling back with retreating stream, offered no protection to the combatants, there the elephants bore huge towers and upper-works on their sable backs, swaying to and fro like a moving rampart and raising the tall structures to the sky.
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