quid ripas tenuisse iuvat? premit undique nimbo telorum Phoenissa cohors, nec tegmina membris ulla, omnisque patet leto; tunc vulnera manant, quique sub amne diu stupuit cruor, are nudo solvitur et tenues venarum laxat hiatus, incertique labant undarum frigore gressus.
What use to gain the bank? The Phoenician host presses him from all sides with a shower of weapons. Nothing protects his limbs, he is all open to death. Then his wounds flow. The blood, long stanched beneath the river, is released in the naked air and loosens the openings of the veins. His steps totter, uncertain from the chill of the water.
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