Amborum
Uxores noctu Troiad exibant capitibus
Opertis, flentes ambæ, abeuntes lacrymis multis.[[142]]
These few words tell their tale with as much pathos as that admired line in the Andrian of Terence—
Rejecit se in eum flens quam familiariter.
The following lines describe the panic of the Carthaginians; nor could any Roman poet have sketched the picture in fewer strokes or with more suggestive power:—
Sic Poinei contremiscunt artibus universim;
Magnei metus tumultus pectora possidet
Cæsum funera agitant, exequias ititant,
Temulentiamque tollunt festam.[[143]]