cling closely oor Latyn

cling closely

Vertalings in die woordeboek Engels - Latyn

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Close cling their ladders to the walls; these, fain / to clutch the doorposts, climb from floor to floor, / their right hands strive the battlements to gain, / their left with lifted shield the arrowy storm sustain.
Haerent parietibus scalae, postesque sub ipsos / nituntur gradibus, clipeosque ad tela sinistris / protecti objiciunt, prensant fastigia dextris.

Close cling their ladders to the walls; these, fain / to clutch the doorposts, climb from floor to floor, / their right hands strive the battlements to gain, / their left with lifted shield the arrowy storm sustain.
Hærent parietibus scalæ, postesque sub ipsos / nituntur gradibus, clipeosque ad tela sinistris / protecti objiciunt, prensant fastigia dextris.

At first, the legion kept its position, clinging to the narrow defile as a defence; when they had exhausted their missiles, which they discharged with unerring aim on the closely approaching foe, they rushed out in a wedge-like column.
Ac primum legio gradu immota et angustias loci pro munimento retinens, postquam [in] propius suggressos hostes certo iactu tela exhauserat, velut cuneo erupit.