Metarum instar erat hinc nudo robore quercus, olim omnes exuta comas, hinc saxeus umbo, arbiter agricolis; finem iacet inter utrumque quale quater iaculo spatium, ter harundine, vincas.
For turning posts there stood at one end a bare oak trunk long stripped of all its foliage, at the other a stone block, the farmers umpire. Between either mark was a space that might be mastered four times with a javelin, three with an arrow.
final_alignments\Statius_Thebaid_Book6.json