hunc longa multa orantem Carmelus et altos mutantem saltu ramos transverberat hasta; ut, qui viscata populatur harundine lucos, dum nemoris celsi procera cacumina sensim substructa certat tacitus contingere meta, sublimem calamo sequitur crescente volucrem.
But Carmelus ran him through with his long spear, as he begged hard for mercy and sprang from branch to branch overhead. Thus the fowler who dispeoples the grove with his cane-rod tipped with birdlime, pursues the bird over his head with a lengthening reed, and silently tries to reach at last the topmost branches by adding a joint to his tapering rod.
final_alignments\Silius_Italicus_Punica_Book7.json