tum vero invadunt iaculis crebraque sagitta, ausi iam sperare necem, immensosque per armos et laterum extensus venit atra cuspide vulnus; stat multa in tergo et nigranti lancea dorso, ac silvam ingentem, concusso corpore, vibrat, donec, consumptis longo certamine telis, concidit et clausit magna vada pressa ruina.
But now the Romans, daring at last to hope that they might kill it, assailed it with darts and showers of arrows. Soon the vast expanse of its shoulders and sides was covered with wounds from the cruel steel; many a lance stuck in its dusky back and rump; and, when it shook itself, the huge forest of missiles waved. At last, when the long contest had used up all their weapons, it fell, and the huge carcass blocked the stream beneath it.
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