Ne dubita miles tutos haurire liquores;
Noxia serpentum est admisto sanguine pestis;
Morsu virus habent et fatum dente minantur;
Pocula morte carent. Dixit dubuumque venenum
Hausit.”
Which has been elegantly rendered into English as follows:—
“And now with fiercer heat the desert glows,
And mid-day sun-darts aggravate their woes;
When, lo! a spring amid the sandy plain
Shows its clear mouth to cheer the fainting train;