tranavit, volucris liquidas ceu scinderet auras, hasta viri pectus rupitque immania membra: quanta est vis agili per caerula summa Liburnae, quae, pariter quotiens revocatae ad pectora tonsae percussere fretum, ventis fugit ocior et se, quam longa est, uno remorum praeterit ictu.
Like a bird cleaving the clear sky, the spear pierced the breast of Calenus and shattered his huge frame. With such force the light Liburnian galley skims over the surface of the deep; when the oars, drawn back to the rowers chests, strike the water in unison, she flies swifter than the winds, and a single stroke of their blades carries her further than her own length.
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