vallantem castra'obscuro nam vesper Olympo fundere non aequam trepidanti coeperat umbram' aggreditur Latius rector, subitoque tumultu caeduntur passim coepti munimina valli imperfecta: supercontexere herbida lapsos pondera, et in tumuli concessit caespes honorem.
Hanno was fortifying his camp in haste'for evening had begun to throw an unfriendly darkness over him from the dusky heavens'when Scipio attacked him, and with sudden uproar the palisade they had begun to erect was knocked down uncompleted. The heavy sods were heaped on the top of the fallen men, and the turf became a soldiers sepulchre.
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