cedebant iam signa retro, victorque catervas longius avectas afflatus peste premebat, cum ductor, propere revocatam in proelia turmam vocibus impellens: serpentine Itala pubes.
The soldiers fell back, and the victorious serpent attacked the squadrons from a distance with his pestilential breath. But then Regulus speedily recalled the troops to battle and encouraged them thus:
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