sensit ut exhaustas, qui proximus ibat, Hiberus Callaicas Cyrni vires, nec, ut ante, salire praecipitem currum, et fumantes verbere cogi assiduo violenter equos, ceu monte procella cum subita ex alto ruit, usque ad colla repente cornipedum protentus et in capita ardua pendens, concitat ardentem, quod ferret lora secundus, Panchatem vocesque addit cum verbere mixtas: tene, Astur, certante feret quisquam aequore palmam erepto? consurge, vola, perlabere campum assuetis velox pennis.
When Hiberus, who came second, saw that the Gallician team of Cyrnus was tiring, that the chariot was no longer bounding ahead, and that the smoking horses were driven on by severe and repeated flogging, then, as when a sudden storm rushes down from a mountain-top, he leaned forward quickly as far as the necks of his coursers and hung above their crests,a and stirred up Panchates, who was chafing at being second in the race, and plied his whip, even while he called to the horse: Steed of Asturia, shall any other get in front and win the prize when you are competing? Rise up and fly and glide over the plain with all your wonted speed, as if on wings!
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