celsus summo de culmine montis regnator superum sublata fulmina dextra libravit clipeoque ducis, non cedere certi, incussit: summa liquefacta est cuspis in hasta, et fluxit, ceu correptus fornacibus, ensis.
The Ruler of the gods, high on his hill-top, hurled a thunderbolt with his lifted arm and smote the shield of Hannibal. The general was resolved never to give way; but the point of his spear was melted, and his sword was fused, as if it had been plunged in the furnace.
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