utque oculis libravit in hostem et calamo monstravit iter, diversa relaxans bracchia, deduxit vultu comitante per auras in vulnus telum ac residentis puppe magistri affixit plectro dextram; nec deinde regenda puppe manus valuit, flectenti immortua clavo.
Then he measured with the eye the distance of the enemy and showed its path to the arrow, and, relaxing his extended arms, stood watching its flight through the sky till it struck its mark. A steersman was sitting by the stern, and the arrow pinned his hand to the helm; and the hand could no longer steer the ship but stuck lifeless to the guiding tiller.
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