Flumineam rapiente vado puer Argipus ulmum prenderat, insignes umeros ferus ense Menoeceus amputat; ille cadens, nondum conamine adempto, truncus in excelsis spectat sua bracchia ramis.
Young Argipus  had caught hold of a riverside elm as the stream swept him away; fierce Menoeceus cuts off the shapely shoulders with his sword. As he falls, effort still continuing, he gazes mutilated at his own arms in the tall branches.
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