is prima in pugna (vates ut Thracius olim, infestam bello quateret cum Cyzicus Argo, spicula deposito Rhodopeia pectine torsit) spectandum sese non parva strage virorum fecerat, et dextrae gliscebat caedibus ardor.
He fought in the van; and, even as the Thracian bardc long ago dropped his lyre and hurled missiles brought from Rhodope, when Cyzicusd made war upon the Argo, so Ennius had made himself conspicuous by slaying many of the enemy, and his ardour in battle grew with the number of his victims.
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