[The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil]@TWC D-Link bookThe Aeneid of Virgil BOOK TWELVE 21/122
Remember, and be thou What uncle Hector was, and what thy sire is now." LVII.
He spake, and swinging his tremendous spear, Swept through the gate; then Antheus, with his train, Rushed forth, and Mnestheus.
With a general cheer Forth pours the host; a dust-cloud hides the plain; Earth, startled by their trampling, throbs in pain. Pale Turnus saw them from a distant height, The Ausonians saw, and terror chilled each vein. Juturna heard, and knew the noise of fight, And from the van drew back, and shuddered with affright. LVIII.
On swept he, and the blackening host behind. As when from sea a storm-cloud sweeps to shore, The weather breaking, and the trembling hind Foresees afar the ruin and the roar, The shattered orchards, and the crops no more, While, landward borne, the muttering winds betray The coming storm; so down the Trojan bore Against the foemen, and in firm array All knit their serried ranks, and gladden at the fray. LIX.
Thymbraeus smites Osiris, Mnestheus fells Archetius; by Achates smitten sheer, Falls Epulo, and Gyas Ufens quells. Falls, too, Tolumnius, the sacred seer, Who first against the foemen hurled his spear. Uprose a shout, and the Rutulians reeled And fled.
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