Pugnabat tamen (heu belli vecordia!) miles, iactatus titubante solo, tremebundaque tela, subducta tellure ruens, torquebat in hostem, donec pulsa vagos cursus ad litora vertit mentis inops stagnisque illata est Daunia pubes.
Yet'alas for the frenzy of war!'the battle still went on; and the soldiers, though staggering on the unsteady ground and falling when the earth withdrew beneath them, kept hurling their uncertain missiles against the foe. At last the Romans were defeated and turned their random flight to the lake-shore, and were driven distracted into the water.
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