concurrunt; quantumque rapit violentia ponti et Notus et Boreas et inexorabilis Auster, cum mergunt plenas tumefacta sub aequora classes; aut cum letiferos accendens Sirius ignes torret anhelantem saevis ardoribus orbem; tantum acies hominumque ferox discordia ferro demetit.
Then the armies met. Many are the victims claimed by the fury of the sea, when the North-wind and pitiless South-winds whelm fleets with their crews beneath the swollen waves; and many by Sirius,b when he kindles his deadly fires and burns up the panting earth with his fierce heat; and no less havoc was wrought by the sword in this battle and by the furious strife of men.
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