lubrica roboreis aderant substramina plaustris; inque recens caesi tergo prolapsa iuvenci, aequoream rota ducebat per gramina puppim.
A slippery surface was laid down underneath wooden wagons, and wheels, moving easily over the hides of freshly-slain bullocks, carried the ships through the meadow-land.
final_alignments\Silius_Italicus_Punica_Book12.json