mox alius super atque alius consistere tuto dum certant, pars excussi (nam fragmine putri ramorum et senio male fida fefellerat arbor) pars trepidi celso inter tela cacumine pendent.
Then, as one climbed above another in his eagerness to reach a place of safety, some fell to the ground, deceived by the rotten boughs and decay of the treacherous tree, while others hung in terror in the lofty tree-top, a mark for missiles.
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