iamque super Rutula, super et Garamantide pinu ibat ovans, melior remo meliorque sagitta; et iam turrigerum demerserat aequore Nessum; heu puero malesuada rudi nova gloria pugnae! dum cristam galeae trucis exuviasque precatur de duce Marcello superos temerarius, hasta excepit raptim vulnus letale remissa.
On he went triumphant, outstripping Roman ships and Carthaginian alike, having better oarsmen and better archers. Already he had sunk the turret-ship, Nessus; but, alas, the tiro was tempted to ruin by his first taste of glory. While he prayed to Heaven in his rash folly that he might strip the general, Marcellus, of his armour and menacing helmet-plume, an answering spear-cast dealt him a deadly wound.
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