Paulus, dum fragiles cogere surculos et densere foci congeriem studet, incautam cumulis inseruit manum, torpebat glacie pigra ubi vipera sarmentis laqueos corporis inplicans.
Paul, busily gathering brittle twigs and pressing them on the burning heap, put an unwary hand into the pile, where a viper had been lying torpid and benumbed with the frost, its body twined in coils about the sticks;
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