bent the bow with deadly aim, and drew it far apart, till

the arching ends met together, and with her two hands

she touched, the barb of steel with her left, her breast with 15

her right and the bowstring. Forthwith the hurtling of

the shaft and the rush of the breeze reached Arruns’ ear

at the moment the steel lodged in his body. Him gasping

and groaning his last his comrades leave unthinking in the

unmarked dust of the plain: Opis spreads her wings, and 20

is borne to skyey Olympus.

First flies, its mistress lost, Camilla’s light-armed company;