talis medios aufertur in hostes certus et ipse necis, vires fiducia leti suggerit; inde viro maioraque membra diesque latior et numquam tanta experientia caeli, si vacet: avertit morti contermina Virtus.
Such is he borne into the midst of the enemy, certain himself of doom; assurance of death gives him strength. Hence his limbs are larger, the daylight wider,  never before so ample his survey of heaven'if he but had the time. Valour, close neighbour to death, distracts him.
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