mox in plana libens, nudo ne pectore tela inciderent, saltu praeceps defertur et orbem, quem procul oppresso vidit Therone volutum, corripuit, tergoque et vertice tegmina nota saeptus et hostili propugnans pectora parma constitit.
Then of his own will he leaps down to the level and lest weapons fall on his unprotected breast snatches up the shield that he had seen roll away when Theron was crushed. His back and head guarded by their familiar coverings, defending his breast with the enemy buckler, he took his stand.
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