Again, the Trojan forces following their leader, Æneas, suggest to his mind the idea of innumerable flocks bounding after a ram to drink.[[1789]]
The people followed, as the flock the shaggy ram succeeds,
Who to the cooling streamlet’s bank the woolly nation leads
(While swells the shepherd’s heart with joy) from pasture on the meads.
Elsewhere, he describes a troop of hungry wolves attacking the flocks on the mountains:—[[1790]]
As when the hungry wolves, on folds forsaken by the watch,
Descend, the kids and tender lambs by thievish force to snatch;
Or when the timid browsing crew are scattered far and wide,
And seized, by witless shepherds left upon the mountain side.
But, in another place, they are represented contending with a lion by night for the body of one of their flock.[[1791]]