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“There may be viewèd ’counters madly rash, onsets no Serra’s sturdy strength could stand, while charging here and there the chargers dash— the gifts of Neptune smiting gravid Land:— Buffets they deal, and blows that bash and smash, burneth and blazeth Warfare’s blasting brand, but he of Lusus coat, mail, plate of steel, hacks, hews, breaks, batters, rives and rends piecemeal.