nec iusso mora: collectis fumantia lucent terga elephantorum flammis; pastusque sonoro ignis edax vento per propugnacula fertur.
They obeyed at once: the backs of the beasts sent up smoke and flame, as the fire grew; and fed by the roaring wind, it spread over the fighting-towers and devoured them.
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