nullus, qui portet in hostem, sufficit insano sonipes; incedere noctis, quae tardent cursum, tenebras dolet; itque superbus tantum non strictis mucronibus, ulla retardet ne pugnas mora, dum vagina ducitur ensis.
No war-horse is swift enough to carry that madman against the enemy; when the darkness of night comes on, he resents the hindrance to his activity; he marches proudly on, with swords that are all but drawn, that the drawing of the blade from the sheath may not delay the battle.
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