impulit adverso praeceps equus Onchea conto nequiquam totis revocantem viribus armos in latus; accedit sonipes, accedit et ipse frigidus; arma cadunt, rorat procul ultima cuspis; qualem populeae fidentem nexibus umbrae siquis avem summi deducat ab aere rami, ante manu tacita cui plurima crevit harundo; illa dolis viscoque super correpta sequaci implorat ramos atque inrita concitat alas.
Oncheus was carried by his headlong steed straight upon a pike, though in vain with all his might he tugs the horses shoulders sideward; on went the steed, on went the rider, cold with terror; his weapons fall, the spear-point far behind his back drips blood; as when a man brings down from its airy perch upon the topmost branch a bird that has trusted in the interwoven poplar shade, a man from whose secret hand has uprisen many a length of reed: the bird caught by the guile of the clinging lime implores the boughs and flaps its wings in vain.
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