“Men leave arms and legs behind, severed by the frost, and the cruel cold cuts off the limbs already broken.”

—  Silius Italicus , Punica

Book III, line 552–553
Punica

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Abscisa relincunt membra gelu, fractosque asper rigor amputat artus.

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