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 fury hastens to the Dardan gate and the two haughty brethren. Hurling his dart, he first slays Antiphates, who happened first to meet him, bastard son of great Sarpedon by a Theban mother; the shaft of Italian cornel flies through the yielding air, and lodging in the throat goes     5 deep down into the chest; the wound's dark pit spouts forth a foaming torrent, and the cold steel grows warm in the lungs it pierces. Then with strong hand he slays Merops and Erymas and then Aphidnus, then Bitia with his blazing eyes and his boiling valour—not with a       10 dart, for to a dart he would not have surrendered his life—no; it was a whirled phalaric lance that came hurtling fiercely, shot like a thunderbolt, which neither two bulls' hides nor a trusty corselet with double golden plait could withstand: the massive limbs sink and fall: earth groans,     15 and the vast buckler thunders on the body. Even thus sometimes on Baiæ's Eubceanan] coast falls a pile of stone, which men compact with mighty blocks and then fling into the sea; thus it comes down with protracted head-*long ruin, and dashing on the shallows settles into its          20 place; the sea is all disturbed, and the murky sand rises to the surface; the crash shakes Prochyta[o] to her depths, and Inarime's[o] rugged bed, laid by Jove's command upon Typhoeus.

Now Mars, the lord of arms, inspires the Latians with     25 strength and courage, and plants his stings deep in their bosoms, while among the Teucrians, he sends Flight and grisly Terror. They flock from this side and from that, now that scope for battle is given, and the warrior-god comes down on their souls. When Pandarus saw his        30 brother's corpse laid low, and knew the posture of fortune and the chance that was swaying the day, with a mighty effort he turns the gate on its hinge, pushing with his broad shoulders, and leaves outside many of his comrades shut out from the camp all in the cruel battle, while others he shuts     35 in with himself, admitting them as they stream onward—madman, to have failed to see the king of the Rutulians in the middle of the company storming in, and to have shut