mortiferum inde manu properantem vellere ferrum pilo Volsonem (namque hoc de strage iacentum fors dabat) affixa sternit per tegmina nare.
Volsos turn came next. He was trying to pluck forth the fatal steel, when Hannibal laid him low, piercing his nostrils through his shield with a pilumb which he had chanced to pick up from a heap of corpses.
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