Vetusta arbor haud procul muro ramos multa fronde vestitos, velut de industria regem protegentes, obiecerat; huius spatioso stipiti corpus, ne circumiri posset, applicuit, clipeo tela quae ex adverso  ingerebantur excipiens.
for an aged tree, standing close to the wall, had thrown out its branches, thickly clothed with leaves, as if for the very purpose of protecting the king; against the huge trunk of this he took his place, in such a way as not to be surrounded, receiving on his buckler all the weapons that were hurled at him in  front.
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