With wonder, as they went, the troops were filled,
To see such numbers whom so few had killed.
}
{ Saranus, Rhamnes, and the rest, they found;
{ Vast crowds the dying and the dead surround;
{ And the yet reeking blood o'erflows the ground.
All knew the helmet which Messapus lost,
But mourned a purchase that so dear had cost.
Now rose the ruddy morn from Tithon's bed,
And with the dawn of day the skies o'erspread: