iamque instat telis et utramque obnixus in ulnam cornua contingit mucrone et pectora nervo, cum ducis Aonii magno cita turbine cuspis fertur in adversum nervique obliqua sonori vincla secat: pereunt ictus, manibusque remissis vana supinato ceciderunt spicula cornu.
And now he is about to shoot and straining into either elbow he touches the horns with the arrows head and his breast with the string, when the spear of the Aonian leader hurled with a mighty whirl comes at him, severing obliquely the bond of sounding string;  the shot goes for nothing and from his loose hands the idle arrow falls and the bow springs backwards.
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