Then lewd Anchemolus he laid in dust,

Who stained his stepdame's bed with impious lust.

And, after him, the Daunian twins were slain,

Laris and Thymbrus, on the Latian plain;

So wondrous like in feature, shape, and size,

As caused an error in their parents' eyes—

Grateful mistake! but soon the sword decides

The nice distinction, and their fate divides:

For Thymbrus' head was lopped; and Laris' hand,

Dismembered, sought its owner on the strand: