spear-head reaches his unguarded breast, cleaves the two-plated
corslet, and tastes the surface of the flesh. Yet he,
his shield before him, kept fronting and threatening the 20
foe, and protecting himself with his drawn sword, when
the wheel careering onward strikes and flings him on the
ground, and Turnus with a sweep of his blade between
the bottom of the helmet and the breastplate’s topmost
rim has lopped the head and left the trunk to welter. 25
While Turnus thus is dealing havoc over the field,
Mnestheus, true Achates, and Ascanius have helped Æneas