Epytides gives the expected signal with far-reaching shout
and loud cracking whip. In regular order they gallop asunder,
the three companies breaking and parting right and left;
and again, at the word of command, they wheel round, and
charge each other with levelled lances. Then they essay
other advances and other retreats in quarters still opposite,
each entangling each in circles within circles, and in their
real armour raise an image of battle. Now they expose 5
their backs in flight, now they turn their spear-points in
charge, now as in truce they ride along side by side. Even