huius opem (nam qua terras invaderet?) unca arripuit dextra: nec pertulit illa trahentem, sed maiore super, quam stabat, pondere victa solvitur et, qua stagna subit radice quibusque arentem mordebat humum dimissa, superne iniecit sese trepido ripamque, nec ultra passurum subitae vallavit ponte ruinae.
He clutched its aid (for whereby could he get to land?) with hooked clasp. But it bore not his dragging. Overcome by weight above  greater than its own, it breaks loose. Detached from the root by which it entered the water and those with which it bit the dry soil, it cast itself and the bank down upon the tremulous hero, now at the end of his endurance, and surrounded him with the bridge of its sudden collapse.
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