“and you, Teucrians, take measure at once of the strength

which dwelt in my frame, while that frame was young,

and the death from whose door you have called back,

and are still keeping, your Dares.” So saying, he took his 5

stand full before the face of the bullock, which was there

as the prize of the fray, and with arm drawn back, swung

the iron gauntlet right between the horns, rising to his

full height, crashed it down on the bone, and shattered the

brain. Prostrated, breathless, and quivering, on earth lies 10

the bull. He from his bosom’s depth speaks thus over