strength been given me: now the cruel wound overcomes

me; and all around me grows dim and dark. Haste and

carry Turnus my dying charge, to take my place in the

battle and keep off the Trojans from the town. And now

farewell.” As she spoke she dropped the bridle, swimming 15

down to earth with no willing act. Then as the death-chill

grows she gradually discumbers herself of the entire weight

of the body, droops her unstrung neck and her head on

which fate has seized, quitting too her armour, and her

soul, resenting its lot, flies groaningly to the shades. Then 20