Note 041
From Chapter 56 of the Decline & Fall

I shall quote with pleasure some of the best lines of the Apulian (l. ii. p. 270).

Pugnat utrâque manû, nec lancea cassa, nec ensis
Cassus erat, quocunque manû deducere vellet.
Ter dejectus equo, ter viribus ipse resumptis
Major in arma redit: stimulos furor ipse ministrat.
Ut Leo cum frendens, etc.
Nullus in hoc bello sicuti post bella probatum est
Victor vel victus, tam magnos edidit ictus.
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