nec cetera segnis, quaecumque ad laudem stimulant; somnumque negabat naturae noctemque vigil ducebat in armis, interdum proiectus humi turbaeque Libyssae insignis sagulo duris certare maniplis; celsus et in magno praecedens agmine ductor imperium praeferre suum; tum vertice nudo excipere insanos imbres caelique ruinam.
In all other things that spur a man on to glory he was untiring: denying sleep to nature, he would pass the whole night armed and awake, lying sometimes upon the ground; distinguished by the generals cloak, he vied with the hardy soldiers of the Libyan army; or mounted high he rode as leader of the long line; again he endured bare-headed the fury of the rains and the crashing of the sky.
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