hic, audax ira, magno per caerula saltu Corbulo transgressus (nam textam robore turrim appulerant nexae ferri compage triremes) evadit tabulata super flammaque comantem multifida pinum celso de culmine quassat.
Then, emboldened by wrath, Corbulo, with one great leap, covered the distance and boarded a wooden tower,c which two triremes, bound together with iron clamps, had brought alongside. He climbed up the stages of the tower, and from the top brandished a blazing torch of split pine-wood.
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