“No safety can the vanquished find

Till hope of safety be resigned”;

“Mixtoque insania luctu

Et furiis agitatus amor et conscia virtus”:

“A warrior’s pride, a father’s pain,

In mingled madness glow”;

“Sed neque currentem se nec cognoscit euntem

Tollentemve manu saxumque immane moventem”

(how well in the heavy movement of the last line the sound echoes the sense!—a beauty which the translator certainly misses):

“Running, he knew not that he ran: