unanima inde phalanx, crudo ducente magistro, postquam hominum satiata nece est, prostraverat ictu innumero cum turre feram, facibusque secutis ardentem monstri spectabat laeta ruinam, cum subitus galeae fulgor conoque coruscae maiore intremuere iubae; nec tarda senectus (agnovit nam luce virum) rapit agmina, natos, saeva parens ultro in certamina et addere passim tela iubet nec manantes ex ore feroci, aut quae flagrarent galea, exhorrescere flammas.
And now this band of brothers, led by their hardy instructor, had glutted themselves with slaughter of men, and then laid low with countless wounds an elephant with a tower on its back. Then fire-brands followed, and they were watching with joy while the fallen monster was burning, when suddenly a helmet flashed and plumes waved bright above a higher helmet. The old man, who recognized Hannibal by the light he shed, was no laggard: willingly he urged on his troop of sons into the fierce conflict, bidding them hurl their weapons thick and fast, and disregard his fire-breathing nostrils and the flames that came from his helmet.
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