passed over—that the gods have changed their sides? 30

Give way to Heaven.” He said, and his word closed the

fight. But Dares is in the hands of his faithful comrades,

dragging after him his feeble knees, dropping his head on

this side and on that, discharging from his mouth clotted

gore, teeth and blood together. Thus they lead him to 35

the ships; summoned, they receive for him the helmet and

the sword; the palm and the bull they leave to Entellus.

Hereon the conqueror, towering in pride of soul, and

exulting in his prize, the bull: “Goddess-born,” cries he,