nigra viro membra, et furvi iuga celsa trahebant cornipedes, totusque novae formidinis arte concolor aequabat liventia currus equorum terga; nec erectis similes imponere cristis cessarat pennas, aterque tegebat amictus.
His body was black, and his lofty chariot was drawn by black horses; and the chariot'a new device to strike terror'was the same colour all over as the dusky backs of the steeds; and on his lofty crest he had been careful to set a plume of the same hue; and the garment he wore was black also.
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