They kneel for pardon, and repent their crime.

Twice have our foes been vanquished on the plain:

Then shall I wait till Turnus will be slain?

Your force against the perjured city bend;

There it began, and there the war shall end;

The peace profaned our rightful arms requires;

Cleanse the polluted place with purging fires."

He finished; and—one soul inspiring all—

Formed in a wedge, the foot approach the wall.

Without the town, an unprovided train