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ayed. Out came the dart, and he again was sound. "Arms! bring his arms! Why stand ye thus afraid?" Iapis cries, and, foremost to upbraid, Inflames them to the fight. "No hand of mine, No power of leech-craft, nor a mortal's aid This healing wrought; a greater power divine, AEneas, sends thee back, by greater deeds to shine." LVI. He, hot for fight, the golden cuishes bound, And shook the spear, then put his corslet on, And strung the shield, and in his arms enwound, And gently through the helmet kissed his son. "Learn, boy, of me, how gallant deeds are done, Fortune of others. I will guard thee now, And lead to fame. Let riper manhood con Thy kinsmen's deeds. 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. AEneas, on the dusty rear Close-trampling, scorns to follow them afield, Or fight with those that stand, or slaughter those that yield. LX. Turnus alone, amid the blinding gloom, He tracks and traces, searching far and near, Turnus alone he summons to his doom. Juturna sees, and smit with sudden fear, Unseats Metiscus, Turnus' charioteer, And flings him down, and leaves him on the plain, Then takes his place, an
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