At non tam tristi sortitus proelia Marte Phoebei Soractis honor Carmelus agebat; sanguine quippe suo iam Bagrada tinxerat ensem, dux rectorque Nubae populi; iam fusus eidem Zeusis, Amyclaei stirps impacata Phalanti, quem tulerat mater claro Phoenissa Laconi.
But better fortune in battle befell Carmelus, the pride of Soractea sacred to Apollo. For he had already dyed his sword with the blood of Bagrada, lord and leader of a Nubian people; and he had slain Zeusis also, a warlike son of Spartan Phalantus,b whom a Punic mother had borne to a famous Lacedaemonian.
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