Cum subitas videre rates vibrataque flammis aequora, non una Minyae formidine surgunt, primus et in puppem deserta virgine ductor prosilit et summa galeam rapit altus ab hasta, ense simul clipeoque micat; nec cetera pubes segnius adreptis in litore constitit armis.
When the Minyae saw the suddenly-appearing fleet and the seas gleaming with torches, they rise in manifold alarm, and first their leader, leaving the maiden, leaps upon the poop and towering there snatches his helmet from the spear-point; from sword at once and shield flashes light; nor are the rest of the crew more slow to seize their weapons and form upon the beach.
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