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difference so great." He spoke, and Æneas thus makes
reply: "Those many talents you name of silver and gold,
keep them for your sons. Turnus was the first to put an
end to such trading usages of war at the moment when he
slew Pallas. My sire Anchises' ghost, and my son Iulus, 5
speak their thoughts through me." This said, with his
left hand he grasps the helmet and drives his sword hilt-deep
through the suppliant's back-drawn neck. Hard by
was Hæmonides, priest of Phœbus and Trivia, his temples
wreathed with the fillet's sacred band, glittering all over 10
with gay raiment and goodly armour. Him he meets,
drives over the plain, stands over him fallen, sacrifices
the victim, and whelms him in a mighty shade; the arms
are stripped and carried off on Serestus' shoulders, a trophy
to thee, royal Gradivus. The ranks are rallied by Cæculus, 15
scion of Vulcan's stock, and Umbro, who comes from the
Volscian hills. The Dardan chief puts forth his rage
against them. Already had he mowed down with his
sword Anxur's left hand and the whole orb of the shield
he bore—that foe, I ween, had uttered a haughty boast, 20
and deemed that his hand would second his tongue, and
was swelling in spirit to the stars, with an assured hope
of gray hairs and length of days—when Tarquitus, in the
pride of gleaming armour, borne by the nymph Dryope
to woodland Faunus, crossed his fiery path. Drawing 25
back his spear, he hampers the corselet and the buckler's
weighty mass; then he sweeps to the ground the head,
as the lips were vainly praying and essaying to say a
thousand things, and dashing before him the reeking trunk,
utters thus the fierceness of his heart: "Lie there, doughty 30
warrior! never shall your tender mother give you burial,
or pile your father's tomb above your limbs; no, you
will be left to savage birds, or the river will carry you
whelmed by its eddies, and hungry fish will lick your
wounds." Next he hunts down Antæus and Lucas, of 35
Turnus' first rank, and gallant Numa, and yellow Camers,
son of noble Volscens, who was wealthiest in land of
Ausonia's children, and reigned over voiceless Amyclæ.