Crebri namque nodi duraverant stipites, et in se implicati arborum rami, suspensis circulis similes, lento vimine frustrabantur ictus.
For the many knots had hardened the trunks, and the interlaced branches of the trees, like so many suspended festoons, by their tough interwoven shoots would bring to naught the strokes of the axe.
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