namque Alpibus ortus, avulsas ornos et adesi fragmina montis cum sonitu volvens, fertur latrantibus undis ac vada translato mutat fallacia cursu, non pediti fidus, patulis non puppibus aequus; et tunc, imbre recens fuso, correpta sub armis corpora multa virum spumanti vertice torquens immersit fundo laceris deformia membris.
for, rising in the Alps, it carries along with a roar uprooted ash-trees and boulders washed away from the mountains, and rushes on with raging waters, often shifting its channel, and changing its deceitful fords. The foot-passenger cannot trust it; no broad ship is safe upon it. Now, swollen by recent rains, it seized many of the armed men, and whirled them round in its foaming eddies, and buried in its depths their mutilated bodies and mangled limbs.
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