coming on like a torrent, sweeping all before their victorious 15
onslaught, the alarm already wafted to the walls.
He, all on fire (for even such is Jove’s stern requirement),
quits his post on the hills, leaves the impregnable forest.
Scarce had he passed from their sight and occupied the
plain, when father Æneas, entering the unguarded pass, 20
scales the hill-top, and issues through the shadowy wood.
So the two rivals march cityward at full speed, each with
all his army, nor long is the intervening distance; at the
same moment Æneas looked far over the plains all smoking