Sed omnia ista vera esse fingamus; utrumne nos magnitudo beluarum an multitudo hostium terret? Quod pertinet ad elephantos, praesens habemus exemplum; in suos vehementius quam in nos incucurrerunt; tam vasta corpora securibus  falcibusque mutilata sunt.
But let us imagine that all those things are true; does the great size of the beasts or the multitude of the enemy terrify us? So far as the elephants are concerned, we have a recent experience before our eyes; they rushed with greater fury against their own men than against us; their bodies, great as they are, were mutilated by axes and  sickles.
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