the Bacchic dance: ay, there is your passion, there your 35

delight, till the favouring seer announce the sacrificial

feast, and the fat victim invite you to the tall trees of the

grove.” So saying, he spurs his steed into the midst,

ready for the death he brings to others, and charges in

fury on Venulus, snatches the foe from his horse, folds his

arms round him, and carries him on his saddle before him

with wild and violent speed. Upsoars a shout to heaven,

and every Latian eye is turned to the scene. Over the 5

plain like lightning flies Tarchon, bearing the warrior