immemor annorum seniumque oblitus, in arma ille quidem cruda mente et viridissimus irae ibat, sed vani frigentem in Marte senectam prodebant ictus; stipula crepitabat inani ignis iners cassamque dabat sine robore flammam.
Unmindful of his years and forgetting his age, he came forth now to battle. He kept his youthful ardour and all the passion of youth; but his feeble blows betrayed the weakness of the aged warrior: so a fire of straw crackles to no purpose and blazes up with no strength and no effect.
final_alignments\Silius_Italicus_Punica_Book5.json