ille, celer nandi, iamiamque apprendere tuta dum parat et celso connisus corpore prensat gramina summa manu liquidisque emergit ab undis, contorta ripae pendens affigitur hasta.
One of them, a speedy swimmer, struggled for a safe hand-hold and forced his way upward, to grasp the turf at the top; but, just as he emerged from the water, a spear was hurled and pinned him to the bank to which he was clinging.
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