Turnus alone, undaunted, bore the shock,

And with these words his trembling troops bespoke:—

"These monsters for the Trojans' fate are meant,

And are by Jove for black presages sent.

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{ He takes the cowards' last relief away;

{ For fly they cannot, and, constrained to stay,

{ Must yield unfought, a base inglorious prey.

The liquid half of all the globe is lost;

Heaven shuts the seas, and we secure the coast.