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Rh That bears all threats of sea and sky

In undisturbed tranquillity.

First Dolichaon's son be slew,

Then Latagus and Palmus too;

That, as he stands, with ponderous stone

He crushes, scattering brain and bone;

This, as he flies, with dexterous wound

He tumbles hamstrung on the ground,

There leaves him: Lausus wears his crest

And glittering arms on brow and breast.

Euanthes sinks beneath his spear,

And Mimas, Paris' loved compeer,

Whom fair Theano bore

To Amycus, the selfsame night

When Troy's fell firebrand sprang to light:

Now Paris 'neath his country's walls

Sleeps his last sleep, while Mimas falls

On Latium's unknown shore.

Like wild boar, driven from mountain height

By cries that scare and fangs that bite,

In Vesulus' pine-cinctured glen

Long fostered, or Laurentum's fen,

Mid reeds and marish ground,

Now, trapped among the hunters' nets,

His bristles rears, his tushes whets:

None dares for very fear draw nigh;

With arrowy war and furious cry

They stand at distance round:

E'en thus, of all Mezentius' foes,

None ventures hand to hand to close:

With deafening shouts and bended bows

Their tyrant they assail;

He, churning foam, from side to side

Glares round, and from his tough bull hide

Shakes off the brazen hail.