hic robore fracto pugnat inops chalybis seseque in proelia rursus armat naufragio; remis male fervidus ille festinat spoliare ratem, discrimine nullo nautarum interdum convulsa sedilia torquens.
One man, having no steel, uses a broken piece of wood for a weapon and arms himself afresh with fragments of shipwreck; another, with misguided zeal, hastens to rob his vessel of its oars; and some tear up indiscriminately the rowers benches and hurl them at the enemy.
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