A winged arrow struck the pious prince.

But, whether from some human hand it came,

Or hostile god, is left unknown by fame:

No human hand, or hostile god, was found,

To boast the triumph of so base a wound.

When Turnus saw the Trojan quit the plain,

His chiefs dismayed, his troops a fainting train,

The unhoped event his heightened soul inspires:

At once his arms and coursers he requires;

Then, with a leap, his lofty chariot gains,