actus in adversos casu (namque obvia ferre arma quis auderet, nisi quem deus ima colentum damnasset Stygiae nocti?) praefracta gerebat Syrticus excelso decurrens robora monte et, quatiens acer nodosi pondera rami, flagrabat geminae nequiquam caedis amore: non hic Aegates infidaque litora nautis, o iuvenes, motumque novis sine Marte procellis fortunam bello pelagus dabit; aequoris olim victores, media sit qualis, discite, terra bellator Libys, et meliori cedite regnis.
It was by chance that Syrticus, a Carthaginian, was driven to face the pair'for who would have dared to meet them in fight, unless he were condemned to nether darkness by the deity of the shades below? He hastened down from the heights, carrying a branch broken off from an oak-tree; and, as he fiercely brandished the heavy knotted bough, he burned with vain desire to slay the pair: Ye Romans, here are no Aegatian islands,a no shore that betrays the seaman; no sea, stirred by sudden storms and not by war, shall decide the issue of battle; at sea ye conquered in the past; learn now, how a Libyan can fight on dry land, and resign your power to your betters.
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