Qualis deinde roboris illi milites qui vehementi ictu remorum concitatam fuga Punicam <navem nantes lubricis pelagi quasi cam>porum firmitate pedites in litus retraxerunt? Eiusdem temporis et notae miles qui Cannensi proelio, quo Hannibal magis vires Romanorum contudit quam animos fregit, cum ad retinenda arma inutiles vulneribus manus haberet, spoliare se conantis Numidae cervicem complexus os naribus et auribus corrosis deforme reddidit, inque plenis ultionis morsibus exspiravit.
And then how stout were those soldiers who pulled back to shore a Punic ship urged in flight by vigorous oarstrokes, as they swam in the slippery places of the sea (?) like infantry on solid ground! Of the same period and stripe was a soldier at the battle of Cannae, in which Hannibal battered the Romans strength rather than broke their spirit. His wounded hands were useless for holding arms, so clasping the neck of a Numidian who was trying to despoil him, he gnawed the mans nose and ears, disfiguring his face, and expired vengefully biting. Put aside the iniquitous outcome of the battle, how much braver was the slain than the slayer!
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