venit in adversam non vano turbine frontem cuspis et, haud paulum vires adiuta ruentis contra ardore ferae, capiti tremebunda resedit.
The weapon rushed on and did its work: it struck the serpent fairly on the head, gaining not a little force from the fierceness of the creatures charge, and stuck there quivering.
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