cessit et ad socios paulum se rettulit heros opperiens, ubi prima sibi daret agmina tellus, at vero ut summis iam rura recedere cristis vidit et infesta vibrantes casside terras, advolat atque imo tellus qua proxima collo necdum umeri videre diem, prior ense sequaci aequat humo truncos; rutilum thoraca sequentum aut primas a matre manus premit obvius ante.
The hero withdrew and betook himself for a space to his companions, waiting till the earth should show him the first troop. But when he saw the furrows at last open before the summits of the crests, and the surface quivering with the helmet-peaks, he darted upon them, and where the earth lay closest to the base of their necks, nor yet had their shoulders seen the light, quick to the work with obedient sword he levels the trunks with the ground; and as they follow, gleaming corselet or hands first rising from their mother doth he attack and lays them low ere they can strike.
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