Campum emensa brevi fatalis ab arbore tacta (horrendum visu!) per quas modo fugerat auras, venit harundo retro versumque a fine tenorem pertulit, et notae iuxta ruit ora pharetrae.
Quickly measuring the flat, the fateful shaft touched the tree and then (awful to see!) came back through the air through which it had just flown and maintained the reverse course from the target, falling close to the mouth of its familiar quiver.
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