plurimus circa aquilas labor, quae neque ferri adversum ingruentia tela neque figi limosa humo poterant.
Translation :
The struggle was hottest round the eagles, which could neither be carried in the face of the storm of missiles, nor planted in the miry soil.
Edition :
Annales ab excessu divi Augusti. Cornelius Tacitus. Charles Dennis Fisher. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1906.
Complete Works of Tacitus. Tacitus. Alfred John Church. William Jackson Brodribb. Sara Bryant. edited for Perseus. New York. : Random House, Inc. Random House, Inc. reprinted 1942.
