ante omnes ductor, patriis insignis in armis, nunc picea iactat fumantem lampada flamma, nunc sude, nunc iaculo, nunc saxis impiger instat aut hydro imbutas, bis noxia tela, sagittas contendit nervo atque insultat fraude pharetrae: Dacus ut armiferis Geticae telluris in oris, spicula qui patrio gaudens acuisse veneno fundit apud ripas inopina binominis Histri.
In front of them all their leader, conspicuous in his fathers armour, now hurls a brand smoking with pitchy flame, now presses on unwearied with stake or javelin or stone, or shoots arrows from the string'missiles dipped in serpents poison and doubly fatal'and exults in the guile of his quiver. So the Dacian, in the warlike region of the Getic.b country, delighting to sharpen his arrows with the poison of his native land, pours them forth in sudden showers on the banks of the Hister, the river of two names.
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