iamque novus mediae stupefacta per agmina pugnae vadit eques densa spargens hastilia dextra, fulmineumque viris profundens ingerit ensem huc alternus et huc; cum saevior ecce iuventus Sarmaticae coiere manus fremitusque virorum semiferi; riget his molli lorica catena; id quoque tegmen equis; at equi porrecta per armos et caput ingentem campis hostilibus umbram fert abies obnixa genu vaditque virum vi, vadit equum, docilis relegi docilisque reponi atque iterum medios non tardior ire per hostes.
And now a horseman fresh to war he rides through the reeling ranks of hottest battle, flinging shaft after shaft with his right hand, and plies his lightning-swift sword upon his foes, laying them low now this side and now that: when lo! a fierce band of Sarmatians came thronging with savage yells: stiff are their corselets with pliant mail, and such too the armour of their steeds; but stretching out over the horses head and shoulders the fir-wood shaft, firm resting on their knee, casts a long shadow upon the enemys field and forces its way with all the might of both warrior and steed, easily gathered up and set in rest again, and once more as swift to go through the midst of the foe.
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