Leaped the third lot from upturned brazen helm:

And he his mares, in head-gear snorting, whirls,

Full eager at the gates to fall and die;

Their whistling nozzles of barbaric mode,

Are filled with loud blast of the panting nostrils.[[99]]

In no poor fashion is his shield devised;

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A full-armed warrior climbs a ladder's rungs,

And mounts his foeman's towers as bent to sack;

And he too cries, in words of written speech,