Verum ubi mox iuncto sociarant aggere vires Massylus Tyriusque duces, accitaque regno lenierat pubes infaustae vulnera noctis, ira pudorque dabant et coniux, tertius ignis, immanes animos; afflataque barbarus ora castrorum flammis et se velamine nullo vix inter trepidas ereptum ex hoste catervas frendebat minitans; sed enim non luce Syphacem nec claro potuisse die nec sole tuente a quoquam vinci.
But presently, when the Massylian and Carthaginian generals had united their forces behind a common rampart, and fresh troops summoned from all the kingdom had mitigated the disaster of the night, anger and shame and love for his bride'a third incentive'filled the kings heart with inordinate passion: he breathed out savage threats and ground his teeth, to think that his face had been scorched by the fire in the camp, and that he had with difficulty been rescued from the foe, a naked man in the midst of his discomfited soldiers. No man on earth, he declared, could ever have conquered Syphax in bright daylight or in face of the sun.
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