namque ut in adversos, impacti turbine pugnae, Eumachus et Critias et laetus nomine patris Xanthippus iunxere gradus, ceu bella leones inter se furibunda movent et murmure anhelo squalentes campos ac longa mapalia complent' omnis in occultas rupes atque avia pernix Maurus saxa fugit, coniuxque Libyssa profuso, vagitum cohibens, suspendit ab ubere natos; illi dira fremunt, perfractaque in ore cruento ossa sonant, pugnantque feris sub dentibus artus' haud secus Egeriae pubes, hinc Virbius acer, hinc Capys, assiliunt paribusque Albanus in armis.
For Eumachus and Critias, with Xanthippus, proud to bear his fathers name, were swept on by the tide of battle, and confronted the Romans. Even so, when lions fight one another with fury and fill the desert plains and distant huts with their hoarse roaring, every Moor hastens to remote rocks and untrodden crags, and the African mother raises her babes to her streaming breast, to still their cries; the beasts roar terribly, the broken bones crack in their blood-stained jaws, and the limbsc still fight on, in the grip of the cruel teeth. Even so Egerias sons, brave Virbius and Capys and their comrade Albanus, sprang forward.
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